Countries
China, Nepal
Cambodia
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Not Available
Interesting Facts
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Not Available
Lao Language
Derived From
Not Available
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Khmer
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
ND
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
ND
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
ND
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
ND
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
ND
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
ND
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
ND
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
ND
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
ND
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
ND
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Vietnam
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
China
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
tibétain
khmer central
German Name
Tibetisch
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Khmer
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
khme1253
Linguasphere
No data Available
Not Available
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating
All Tibetan and Khmer Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Tibetan and Khmer dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Khmer language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Khmer Dialects are spoken in different Khmer speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Khmer Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Khmer dialects include: Northern Khmer , Khmer Krom. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Khmer Speaking population
Tibetan and Khmer speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Khmer languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Khmer Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available 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 Tibetan and Khmer on Tibetan vs Khmer where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Khmer Language Codes
Tibetan and Khmer language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Khmer Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.