Khmer is a member of the Austroasiatic language family, the autochthonous family in an area that stretches from the Malay Peninsula through … See more

Linguistic study of the Khmer language divides its history into four periods one of which, the Old Khmer period, is subdivided into pre-Angkorian … See more

The phonological system described here is the inventory of sounds of the standard spoken language, represented using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
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Counting in Khmer is based on a biquinary system: the numbers from 6 to 9 have the form "five one", "five two", etc. The words for multiples of ten … See more

Khmer is spoken by some 13 million people in Cambodia, where it is the official language. It is also a second language for most of the minority … See more

Khmer is primarily an analytic language with no inflection. Syntactic relations are mainly determined by word order. Old and Middle Khmer used particles to mark grammatical categories and many of these have survived in Modern Khmer but are used sparingly, … See more

Khmer employs a system of registers in which the speaker must always be conscious of the social status of the person spoken to. The different registers, which include those … See more