Countries
Countries
Norway
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
1
14
1
14
National Language
Norway
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Nynorsk
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Not Available
Interesting Facts
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Swedish and Danish Languages
Lao Language
Derived From
Not Available
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
29
11
53
32
Phonology
How Many Vowels
9
6
20
17
How Many Consonants
20
10
33
23
Scripts
Latin
Khmer
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
4
3
4
3
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks
6
44 weeks
11
Greetings
Hello
hallo
ND
Thank You
takk
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
hvordan har du det?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
god natt
ND
Good Evening
god kveld
ND
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
ND
Good Morning
god morgen
ND
Please
Vær så snill
ND
Sorry
unnskyld
ND
Bye
ha det
ND
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
ND
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
ND
Dialects
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
30,000.00
99+
1,400,000.00
26
Dialect 2
Sognamål
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Sogn
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
Not Available
1,200,000.00
24
Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
Cambodia, Thailand
Total No. Of Dialects
19
17
6
6
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
5.00 million
99+
16.00 million
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
0.24 %
99+
Native Speakers
5.00 million
99+
13.00 million
99+
Native Name
Norsk
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Norsk
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
khmer central
German Name
Nynorsk
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
Khmer, Northern Khmer
History
Origin
c. 1300 AD
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Not Available
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Modern Khmer
Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Not Available
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
no
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
khm
ISO 639 2/B
nor
khm
ISO 639 3
nor
khm
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
norw1258
khme1253
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Not Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating
