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ISO 639
km
Its own name
ខ្មែរ
Script
Other-Brahmic
Direction
Left to right

Khmer

Khmer (ខ្មែរ) is spoken by 15.2M people across 1 territory in CLDR, and is official nationally in 1 of them. Cambodia holds 100% of its speakers.

1 official territory1 home marketneeds a webfont

Reach summary

What one translation into Khmer covers, across every market that speaks it.

Speakers

15.2M

Cambodia 100%

First and second language speakers, summed across the 1 territories CLDR records. The bar splits them by territory.

Online speakers

10.4M

0%100%

68% of speakers, once each territory's speaker count is scaled by its World Bank internet rate. Territories with no internet figure contribute nothing, so this is a floor.

Concentration

100%

0%100%

One market with a diaspora: Cambodia holds 100% of speakers. Take the tone and conventions from there.

Territories

1

1 where it is official nationally, 1 where at least one person in five speaks it. The rest are diaspora and minority populations, which CLDR does record.

Reachable GDP

$86B

Combined GDP of every territory where the language appears. It counts whole economies, not the speakers' share, so read it as an upper bound.

Translation rate

1.00×

1.0×1.6×+

Prices at the mainstream per-word rate used across this site's estimators.

Where Khmer is spoken

Every territory CLDR records, largest speaker count first. Share is of that territory's own population, so the column has no total.

TerritoryShare of that marketSpeakersOnlineStatus
CambodiaKH
89%
15.2M10.4Mofficial

CLDR does record diaspora populations, so a language usually appears in more territories than its home markets, at small shares. Those rows rarely justify a launch on their own, but they are why total reach runs higher than any one country page shows. A dash in the online column means no World Bank internet figure, not zero.

What it takes to ship

The work that is not translation.

Writing system

Other-Brahmic

Lays out left to right, the same as the source. Bundle a webfont: platform defaults do not reliably cover this script.

Plural categories

1

No grammatical plural agreement, so counted messages need one arm.

Rate index

1.00×

Prices at the mainstream per-word rate.