1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Cambodia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Malaysia
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
1.4 Second Language
Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Thailand
Australia, France, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
1.9 Similar To
Indonesian Language
Lao Language
1.10 Derived From
Tamil Language
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
terima kasih
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
3.3 How Are You?
Apa khabar?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,600,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.001,200,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Indonesia
Cambodia, Thailand
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
175.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
77.00 million13.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Bahasa melayu
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Cambodian, Khmer
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Malaiisch
Kambodschanisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Khmer, Northern Khmer
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Austroasiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Proto-Khmer
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Modern Khmer
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
Not Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating