Countries
India, Pakistan
  
Cambodia
  
National Language
India, Pakistan
  
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Second Language
Pakistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Punjabi is 2nd most spoken in United Kingdom and 4th most spoken in Canada.
- Punjabi is tonal language, by using various tones Punjabi speakers are able to differentiate between words.
  
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
Similar To
Hindi Language
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Alphabets in
Punjabi-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi
  
Khmer
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (namaskar)
  
ND
  
Thank You
ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (shukrīā)
  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
How Are You?
ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਕੀ ਹਾਲ ਹੈ? (tuhāḍā kī hāl he?)
  
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Good Night
ਸ਼ੁੱਭ ਰਾਤਰੀ (shubh rātri)
  
ND
  
Good Evening
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
  
ND
  
Good Afternoon
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (Namasakāra)
  
ND
  
Good Morning
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
  
ND
  
Please
ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ (kirpā karkē)
  
ND
  
Sorry
ਖਿਮਾ/ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ। (kimā)
  
ND
  
Bye
ਫਿਰ ਮਿਲਾੰਗੇ (Fair milaange)
  
ND
  
I Love You
ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ। (mẽ tenū̃ piār kardā hā̃)
  
ND
  
Excuse Me
ਵੇਖੋ ਜੀ। (vēkhō jī)
  
ND
  
Dialect 1
Pothohari
  
Northern Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Pakistan
  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
22
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
Saraiki
  
Khmer Krom
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan, India, Pakistan
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
5
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Doabi
  
Western Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Pakistan, Punjab, India
  
Cambodia, Thailand
  
How Many People Speak?
154.30 million
  
12
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
100.00 million
  
11
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
54.30 million
  
12
Not Available
  
Native Name
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی
  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Alternative Names
Lahanda, Lahnda, Lahndi, Lahori, Majhi, Gurmukhi, Gurumukhi, Panjabi
  
Cambodian, Khmer
  
French Name
pendjabi
  
khmer central
  
German Name
Pandschabi-Sprache
  
Kambodschanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Availble
  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Ethnicity
Punjabis
  
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
14
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Shauraseni, Kaikeyi
  
Proto-Khmer
  
Standard Forms
Modern Punjabi
  
Modern Khmer
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
pa
  
km
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
pan
  
khm
  
ISO 639 2/B
pan
  
khm
  
ISO 639 3
pan
  
khm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
panj1256
  
khme1253
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
Not Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Analytic, Isolating