Countries
India, Nepal
Cambodia
National Language
Nepal
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Not Available
Interesting Facts
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Hindi
Lao Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
ND
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
ND
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
ND
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
ND
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
ND
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ND
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
ND
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ND
Dialect 1
Doteli
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Nepal
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Nepal
Cambodia, Thailand
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
népalais
khmer central
German Name
Nepali
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Nepali
Modern Khmer
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Not Available
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nepa1254
khme1253
Linguasphere
12
Not Available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating
Nepali 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 Nepali and Khmer greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Nepali and Khmer language. Nepali word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (namaste) or Khmer word for "Thank You" is សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak). Find more of such common Nepali Greetings and Khmer Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Nepali vs Khmer Difficulty
The Nepali vs Khmer difficulty level basically depends on the number of Nepali 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 Nepali and Khmer are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Nepali and Khmer, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Nepali is 44 weeks while to learn Khmer time required is 44 weeks.