Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
Cambodia
  
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Alphabets in
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Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Khmer
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
سلام
  
ND
  
Thank You
متشکرم
  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
  
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Good Night
شب بخیر
  
ND
  
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
  
ND
  
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
ND
  
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
  
ND
  
Please
لطفا
  
ND
  
Sorry
متاسف
  
ND
  
Bye
خدا حافظ
  
ND
  
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
  
ND
  
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
  
ND
  
Dialect 1
Western Persian
  
Northern Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
  
Khmer Krom
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
  
7
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
  
Western Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Cambodia, Thailand
  
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million
  
26
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
65.00 million
  
17
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
فارسی
  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
Cambodian, Khmer
  
French Name
persan
  
khmer central
  
German Name
Persisch
  
Kambodschanisch
  
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Ethnicity
Persian people
  
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Origin
1500 BC
  
14
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Proto-Khmer
  
Standard Forms
Persian
  
Modern Khmer
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fa
  
km
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fas
  
khm
  
ISO 639 2/B
per
  
khm
  
ISO 639 3
pes
  
khm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
fars1254
  
khme1253
  
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
  
Not Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Persian and Khmer Speaking population
Persian and Khmer speaking population is one of the factors based on which Persian and Khmer languages can be compared. The total count of Persian and Khmer Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Khmer language is 0.24 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Persian and Khmer on Persian vs Khmer where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Persian and Khmer Language Codes
Persian and Khmer language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Persian and Khmer Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.