26 Facts About Khmer language

Khmer language has been influenced considerably by Sanskrit and Pali, especially in the royal and religious registers, through Hinduism and Buddhism.

The Northern Khmer dialect is spoken by over a million Khmers in the southern regions of Northeast Thailand and is treated by some linguists as a separate language.

Standard Khmer, or Central Khmer, the language as taught in Cambodian schools and used by the media, is based on the dialect spoken throughout the Central Plain, a region encompassed by the northwest and central provinces.

Northern Khmer language refers to the dialects spoken by many in several border provinces of present-day northeast Thailand.

Khmer language Khe is spoken in the Se San, Srepok and Sekong river valleys of Sesan and Siem Pang districts in Stung Treng Province.

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The Khmer language Khe living in this area of Stung Treng in modern times are presumed to be the descendants of this group.

Angkorian Khmer is the language as it was spoken in the Khmer Empire from the 9th century until the 13th century.

The language of this transition period, from about the 14th to 18th centuries, is referred to as Middle Khmer and saw borrowings from Thai in the literary register.

Just as modern Khmer language was emerging from the transitional period represented by Middle Khmer language, Cambodia fell under the influence of French colonialism.

Khmer language created the modern Khmer language dictionary that is still in use today, helping preserve Khmer during the French colonial period.

Phonological system described here is the inventory of sounds of the standard spoken Khmer language, represented using the International Phonetic Alphabet .

Khmer language syllable begins with a single consonant, or else with a cluster of two, or rarely three, consonants.

Khmer language once had a phonation distinction in its vowels, but this survives only in the most archaic dialect .

Intonation pattern of a typical Khmer language declarative phrase is a steady rise throughout followed by an abrupt drop on the last syllable.

Old and Middle Khmer used particles to mark grammatical categories and many of these have survived in Modern Khmer but are used sparingly, mostly in literary or formal language.

Khmer language makes extensive use of auxiliary verbs, "directionals" and serial verb construction.

Colloquial Khmer is a zero copula language, instead preferring predicative adjectives unless using a copula for emphasis or to avoid ambiguity in more complex sentences.

Khmer morphology is evidence of a historical process through which the language was, at some point in the past, changed from being an agglutinative language to adopting an isolating typology.

Compounding in Khmer language is a common derivational process that takes two forms, coordinate compounds and repetitive compounds.

Khmer language nouns are divided into two groups: mass nouns, which take classifiers; and specific, nouns, which do not.

Khmer language verbs are a relatively open class and can be divided into two types, main verbs and auxiliary verbs.

Khmer language uses three verbs for what translates into English as the copula.

The various types of clauses in Khmer language include the coordinate clause, the relative clause and the subordinate clause.

Khmer language employs a system of registers in which the speaker must always be conscious of the social status of the person spoken to.

Khmer language is written with the Khmer language script, an abugida developed from the Pallava script of India before the 7th century when the first known inscription appeared.

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The Khmer language script is distantly related to the Mon–Burmese script.