Khmer

Austroasiatic16 million totalKhmer

RegionCambodia

FamilyAustroasiatic

Speakers16 million total

ScriptKhmer

TypeAbugida

About Khmer

The language of the Angkor Wat civilization. Not tonal, unlike most Southeast Asian languages. The script is the ancestor of the Thai and Lao scripts. Has the largest alphabet in the world with 74 letters.

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