|Native to||Cambodia Thailand (East and Northeast) Vietnam (Mekong Delta)|
|Native speakers||16 million (2007)|
|Language family||Austroasiatic Khmeric Khmer|
Is Khmer and Vietnamese language similar?
According to ethnologue, Vietnamese, Mon and Khmer belong to the same language family, viz. Austro-Asiatic.
Is Khmer easy to learn?
Khmer is a truly difficult language for Westerners to learn, harder than Mandarin to speak, and harder than anything other than Chinese or Japanese to read. There are several difficulties. First, many of the vowel sounds are unlike anything in a European language and are only subtly different from one another.
Is Cambodia the same as Vietnamese?
Vietnam is richer than both Cambodia and Laos, basically because it is endowed with a long coastline and a bigger population. Cambodia is approximately 181,035 sq km, while Vietnam is approximately 331,210 sq km, making Vietnam 83% larger than Cambodia.
What language is most similar to Vietnamese?
Originally Answered: What language is most similar to Vietnamese? Mường language. Vietnamese and Mường are the only two languages in the linguistic sub-branch that they both occupy under the Vietic branch of the Mon-Khmer language family.