Countries
Vietnam
  
Cambodia
  
National Language
Vietnam
  
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic
  
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
  
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
Similar To
Chinese Language
  
Lao Language
  
Derived From
Chinese Language
  
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Alphabets in
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Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Khmer
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Xin chào
  
ND
  
Thank You
Cam on
  
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
  
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
ND
  
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
  
ND
  
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
  
ND
  
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
  
ND
  
Please
xin vui lòng
  
ND
  
Sorry
Xin lỗi
  
ND
  
Bye
Tạm biệt
  
ND
  
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
  
ND
  
Excuse Me
Xin loi
  
ND
  
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
  
Northern Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
26
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
  
Khmer Krom
  
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Western Khmer
  
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
Cambodia, Thailand
  
How Many People Speak?
91.00 million
  
16
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
75.00 million
  
14
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million
  
17
Not Available
  
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
Cambodian, Khmer
  
French Name
vietnamien
  
khmer central
  
German Name
Vietnamesisch
  
Kambodschanisch
  
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Origin
c. 1440
  
14
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Proto-Khmer
  
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
  
Modern Khmer
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
vi
  
km
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
vie
  
khm
  
ISO 639 2/B
vie
  
khm
  
ISO 639 3
vie
  
khm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
viet1252
  
khme1253
  
Linguasphere
46-EBA
  
Not Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Vietnamese 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 Vietnamese and Khmer greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Vietnamese and Khmer language. Vietnamese word for "Hello" is Xin chào or Khmer word for "Thank You" is សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak). Find more of such common Vietnamese Greetings and Khmer Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Vietnamese vs Khmer Difficulty
The Vietnamese vs Khmer difficulty level basically depends on the number of Vietnamese 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 Vietnamese and Khmer are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Vietnamese and Khmer, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Vietnamese is 44 weeks while to learn Khmer time required is 44 weeks.