Austroasiatic · ISO 639-3 kxm
Northern Khmer Language พซาคแมร
Northern Khmer is an Austroasiatic language spoken by about 1.4 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Thai script.
Where Northern Khmer is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Northern Khmer language
Northern Khmer (พซาคแมร) is spoken by about 1.4 million people, which makes it the 392nd most spoken language in the world — just behind Western Armenian (1.4 million) and ahead of Mbalanhu (1.4 million). It belongs to the Austroasiatic language family.
Where is Northern Khmer spoken?
Northern Khmer is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Thailand (1.2 million).
Northern Khmer is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Northern Khmer is written in the Thai script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Khmer.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 kxm.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.