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Mongolian vs Khmer


Khmer vs Mongolian


Countries

Countries
China, Mongolia  
Cambodia  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
China, Mongolia  
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Australia, France, United States of America  

Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)  
Not Available  

Interesting Facts
  • Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
  • There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
  
  • Khmer is not the tonal language.
  • Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  

Similar To
Turkish Language  
Lao Language  

Derived From
Not Available  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
53  
32

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
13  
10
20  
17

How Many Consonants
20  
10
33  
23

Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script  
Khmer  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)  
ND  

Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)  

How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)  
អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ  

Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)  
ND  

Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)  
ND  

Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)  
ND  

Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)  
ND  

Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)  
ND  

Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)  
ND  

Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)  
ND  

I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)  
ND  

Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)  
ND  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian  
Northern Khmer  

Where They Speak
Mongolia  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
1,400,000.00  
26

Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian  
Khmer Krom  

Where They Speak
Mongolia  
Vietnam  

How Many People Speak
123,000.00  
34
1,200,000.00  
24

Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian  
Western Khmer  

Where They Speak
Mongolia  
Cambodia, Thailand  

Total No. Of Dialects
8  
8
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.70 million  
99+
16.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.24 %  
99+

Native Speakers
5.70 million  
99+
13.00 million  
99+

Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)  

Alternative Names
Not Available  
Cambodian, Khmer  

French Name
mongol  
khmer central  

German Name
Mongolisch  
Kambodschanisch  

Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]  

Ethnicity
Not Available  
Khmer, Northern Khmer  

History

Origin
1224-1225  
14  

Language Family
Mongolic family  
Austroasiatic Family  

Subgroup
Mongolian  
Not Available  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian  
Proto-Khmer  

Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian  
Modern Khmer  

Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Macrolanguage  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
mn  
km  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
mon  
khm  

ISO 639 2/B
mon  
khm  

ISO 639 3
mon  
khm  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
mong1331  
khme1253  

Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b  
Not Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Analytic, Isolating  

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Mongolian and Khmer Language History

Comparison of Mongolian vs Khmer language history gives us differences between origin of Mongolian and Khmer language. History of Mongolian language states that this language originated in 1224-1225 whereas history of Khmer language states that this language originated in 14. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Mongolian and Khmer Language History.

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Mongolian and Khmer Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Mongolian and Khmer greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Mongolian and Khmer language. Mongolian word for "Hello" is Сайн уу (Sain uu) or Khmer word for "Thank You" is សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak). Find more of such common Mongolian Greetings and Khmer Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Mongolian vs Khmer Difficulty

The Mongolian vs Khmer difficulty level basically depends on the number of Mongolian Alphabets and Khmer Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Mongolian and Khmer are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Mongolian and Khmer, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Mongolian is 44 weeks while to learn Khmer time required is 44 weeks.

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