Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
Cambodia
  
National Language
Turkey
  
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-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
Merhaba
  
ND
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
ND
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
ND
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
ND
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
ND
  
Please
lütfen
  
ND
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
ND
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
ND
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
ND
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
ND
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Northern Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Khmer Krom
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Western Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Cambodia, Thailand
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Türkçe
  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Cambodian, Khmer
  
French Name
turc
  
khmer central
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Kambodschanisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
14
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Proto-Khmer
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Modern Khmer
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
km
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
khm
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
khm
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
khm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
khme1253
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
Not Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Turkish and Khmer Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Turkish and Khmer greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Turkish and Khmer language. Turkish word for "Hello" is Merhaba or Khmer word for "Thank You" is សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak). Find more of such common Turkish Greetings and Khmer Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Turkish vs Khmer Difficulty
The Turkish vs Khmer difficulty level basically depends on the number of Turkish Alphabets and Khmer Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Turkish and Khmer are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Turkish and Khmer, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Turkish is 44 weeks while to learn Khmer time required is 44 weeks.