Khmer

See also: Khmer (homonymy)

The Khmer is a language belonging to the group of the Langues my-khmères of the family of the austroasiatic Langues. He is mainly spoken with the Kampuchea and in the areas bordering on Thailand.

He is written by means of a system of transcription Alphasyllabaire.

Many speakers: approximately thirteen million.

Regional differences

Although there is a great linguistic homogeneity with the Kampuchea, one notes however certain differences of accent. The followed standard is that of Phnom Penh.

Form of Khmer

The written form of Khmer is alphasyllabic (see Khmer Alphabet ). Khmer has less Voyelle S written that of Phonème S expressed. Each Consonne belongs to the one of the two series of consonants. The vowel produced depends on the combination made with a consonant. Thus the majority of the vowels have two pronunciations possible. When there is no vowel, the vowel associated with each consonant is then used. Also one divides the vowels into two groups: dependant and independent. The first are more often used but the seconds are returned phonetically with a dependant vowel. Moreover the language khmère has also the diacritic ones which modifies a series of consonants or changes the pronunciation of the vowel.

Phonetics

Attention, phonetics above is based on the international pronunciation (API: International Phonetic Alphabet or IPA: International Phonetic Alphabet in English). This to have the pronunciation right.

Lexicon

Cardinals

The table below gives the cardinal numbers in my, Vietnamese Khmer and , and their translation in French:

One notices the greatest proximity between my and Vietnamese who enters it my and Khmer.

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • Khmer Keyboard in line

Simple: Khmer language

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