Countries
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
  
Cambodia
  
National Language
Spain
  
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Second Language
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
  
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
Similar To
French Language
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Alphabets in
Spanish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Khmer
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hola
  
ND
  
Thank You
Gracias
  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
How Are You?
Cómo estás?
  
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Good Night
Buenas Noches
  
ND
  
Good Evening
Bonne soirée
  
ND
  
Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes
  
ND
  
Good Morning
Buenos Días
  
ND
  
Please
Por Favor
  
ND
  
Sorry
triste
  
ND
  
Bye
adiós
  
ND
  
I Love You
Te Quiero
  
ND
  
Excuse Me
Discúlpeme
  
ND
  
Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish
  
Northern Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Mexico
  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00
  
5
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish
  
Khmer Krom
  
Where They Speak
Cuba
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00
  
8
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish
  
Western Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Puerto Rico
  
Cambodia, Thailand
  
How Many People Speak
3,900,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
489.00 million
  
3
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
410.00 million
  
2
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
89.50 million
  
9
Not Available
  
Native Name
Español
  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español
  
Cambodian, Khmer
  
French Name
espagnol; castillan
  
khmer central
  
German Name
Spanisch
  
Kambodschanisch
  
Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Origin
210 BC
  
14
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish
  
Proto-Khmer
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
  
Modern Khmer
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Spanish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
es
  
km
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
spa
  
khm
  
ISO 639 2/B
spa
  
khm
  
ISO 639 3
spa
  
khm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1288
  
khme1253
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-b
  
Not Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating