Khmer language alphabet

The language of Cambodia.What you name?and where is the bathroom?It all started in Indiathousands of years ago. And came to Cambodia at least 1,300 years ago. We know this from examining the writings on the temples of the Angkor Wat complex. Also, the sounds of the current Khmer alphabet are very similar to the modern day Hindi alphabet and several words sound similar. Since those times, the writing has been made much more complex (and difficult to read) by adding letters and extra swirls and lines to the the letters. This original Hindi language is one of the root languages, not only of Khmer (Cambodian Language), but also of Thai, Laos, and Burma. While the written system of the language has many similarities throughout all these countries, the numbers are all written the same or very similar. Khmer is written from left to right, top to bottom, withnospacesbetweenthewords and with very little punctuation There are 3 styles of writing: the standard textbook style which is used in handwriting, a block form based on the standard style used in magazines and newspapers, and a rounded style used on signs, titles of books and magazines, and in places on official documents and formal invitations. The Khmer alphabet is considered to have 33 consonants and 23 vowels. There are many more consonants and vowels not included in the standard alphabet. Vowels can be in front of a letter, in back, above, below, or on both sides. The spoken language has no particular tone, as the Thai and Vietnamese languages do. There are no regional dialects, but people from the countryside do speak a little differently from the people in the cities. And now….. on to some Khmer words and phrases.What is your name?Nayaak chmooa away?Where are you from?Nayaak chun cheeit away?How old are you?Nayaak ayoo poonmaan hi?Where are you coming from?Mao pee na?Where are you going?Dto na?(“dt” is a cross between a “d” and a “t”)How much does it cost?Tlai poonmaan?IKinyumyouNayakHe or SheGo ahtUsYoongTheyPoouk GayPleaseSomThank YouAakoonOne more pleaseSom mooey teeutI don’t want itAwt yaw (or) Awt chung baanYes (for a man)BaatYes (for a

Script is an abugida or alphasyllabary i.e. every consonant has an inherent vowel which can be [a] or [ɔ]. Alphabetic order mimics that of its Indian model, which was based on phonetic principles. The alphabet begins with the simple vowels, followed by the syllabic ones, and the diphthongs. Afterwards, we find the consonants grouped according to place and manner of articulation. Between the palatal and dental stops there was a retroflex series in the Indian original script which is pronounced as dental in Khmer. There is no agreed transliteration system. One of them is shown here below the Khmer characters; the International Phonetic Alphabet equivalents are shown between brackets. As the Khmer script doesn’t represent accurately the complex phonology of the language, we use in this page, a phonetic transcription to avoid ambiguities. Morphology Khmer words do not present inflections of any kind. Nouns are not marked for case, gender, or number, and there are no articles. Equally, the verb is not inflected for tense, aspect, mood or person. a)Nouns •number: may be inferred from context, by using a numeral or words like 'some' or 'all', or by duplicating the world: cru:k ('pig') cah ('old') cah ('old') = old pigs. •gender: may be inferred from context or by adding words like 'male' or 'female'. •possession: may be expressed by simply placing side by side the possessed and the possessor (in that order) or by forming a compound word. •noun classifiers: in contrast with Vietnamese, classifiers are few in Khmer and

Sanskrit inscriptions exist in Cambodia. Sanskrit and Khmer were both used for writing by the Khmer elites until the arrival of Buddhism. Phonology Word structure: Khmer words can be monosyllabic or disyllabic. In a disyllabic word a major syllable is preceded by a minor unstressed 'half-syllable'. The range of vowels of the minor syllable is severely restricted. Khmer allows consonant clusters in initial position, particularly of a stop followed by a sonorant (a glide, a liquid or a nasal consonant) or of a stop followed by h. Vowels (18): Austroasiatic languages are remarkable for having large vowel inventories and Khmer is no exception. It has at least 18 monophthongs with four degrees of vowel height which can be short or long, in addition to several diphthongs. In Old Khmer there was, besides, a register distinction, between breathy, creaky or clear voice, that no longer exists. There is no complete agreement about the Khmer vowel system, a tentative description is the following: a) Monophthongs b) Diphthongs: iə, ɨə, eə, ei, əw, aɛ, aə, aj, a:o, ou, ue, ɔe Consonants (21): Khmer labial and dental stops exhibit a three-way contrast between voiceless unaspirated, voiceless aspirated and voiced. In contrast, the palatal affricates and velar stops contrast only between voiceless unaspirated and aspirated. Script and Orthography The Khmer script is one of the oldest of mainland Southeast Asia. It derives from a South Indian alphabet, employed by the Pallava dynasty, which itself derives ultimately from the Brāhmī script of northern India. The Khmer

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