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). Dead Sir, Tamil language has 247 alphabets. In Tamil, there are 247 characters.
How does the Khmer alphabet work?
The Khmer Alphabet is unique, and considerably more complicated and difficult than its English equivalent. While the latter only has 21 consonants and five vowels, Khmer Alphabet comprises a total of 33 consonants and 24 vowels, which are hard to pronounce and remember at first.
How do you write the Khmer consonants?
Khmer is written from left to right. Words within the same sentence or phrase are generally run together with no spaces between them. Consonant clusters within a word are “stacked”, with the second (and occasionally third) consonant being written in reduced form under the main consonant.
Who speaks Khmer language?
Cambodia
For centuries, significant minorities speaking Khmer dialects have resided in Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, so that the language is spoken by at least 15 million people in and near Cambodia.
How difficult is it to learn 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 do you write Khmer vowels?
Type ç or sh to get ś Type aa, ii, uu for the long vowels ā, ī, ū Type w and ww for the vowels ə, ə̄ Type -r and -ri for ri and rī
Does Cambodian have tones?
Unlike the languages that surround it, Khmer is distinctly non-tonal except for one dialect, that of the capital city Phnom Penh. This dialect has two different “tones”, if one can call them such, that help to make up for the lack of the /r/ sound.
What language is Khmer?
Khmer language, also called Cambodian, Mon-Khmer language spoken by most of the population of Cambodia, where it is the official language, and by some 1.3 million people in southeastern Thailand, and also by more than a million people in southern Vietnam.
