Spaces are used in Khmer as phrase separators, but Khmer doesn’t separate words in a phrase using visible spaces. Although Khmer doesn’t use spaces or dividers between words, the expectation is that line-breaks occur at word boundaries.
How difficult is Khmer?
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.
How many letters are in the Khmer alphabet?
The language with the most letters is Khmer (Cambodian), with 74 (including some without any current use).
Which language is harder Thai or Khmer?
There are more polysyllabic words than in Thai, that come from ancient Indian languages. They also seem to be harder to pronounce despite the lack of tones. Khmer is still a syllable-based language, but the syllables are more complicated than those in Chinese, Thai, or Vietnamese.
What language is Khmer?
The Khmer language, the national language of Cambodia, is a member of the Mon-Khmer family of languages spoken over vast area of mainland South-East Asia.
What is the hardest language in the world?
1. Mandarin Chinese. Interestingly, the hardest language to learn is also the most widely spoken native language in the world.