Talk:Khmer language

message: Can someone render "Be Prepared", the Scout Motto, into Khmer script? Thanks! Chris 02:56, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Scouting in Khmer script

message: I have some questions, the article mentions three main dialects while listing four.  Also, Cardamom and Surin are listed while Khmer Krom isn't at all.  I am sure that Khmer Krom is its own independent dialect with just as much or even more speakers than the Khmer Surin dialect.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.136.27.231 (talk) 22:47, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Three main dialects?

message: "Khmer numerals, which were inherited from Indian numerals, are used more widely than Hindu-Arabic numerals."  As in Thailand, the spread of mobile phones has inluenced the way that people write numbers - especially telephone numbers and addresses; though this may be confined to urban centres. --Steve (talk) 00:46, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Care to explain? Besides the fact that Western numerals can also be used (moreso technology-wise), this isn't an abnormal borrowing. I've also seen the 正 unary numeral system used in some places in Cambodia as well. - Io Katai (talk) 01:59, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

text: I don't understand the exact meaning of what you're trying to say, but since Khmer numerals function exactly as hindu-arabic numerals, I don't see why technology would changed its status. Joshotoken (talk) 22:05, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Numbers

message: What is it?  Is it a sprachbund or not?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.201.148.162 (talk) 23:38, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure whether the concept is a valid one, but in the article it seems to be intended to mean that the similarities are more due to common Sanskrit and Pali influence than to mutual language contacts... AnonMoos (talk) 01:09, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure where that term came from, but it has bothered me for a while as well. Languages in the Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area have had extensive mutual contact and the similarities due to much more than just "common Sanskrit and Pali influence" (which is arguably the most superficial of similarities).  Shared areal features can be seen in the morphology, syntax, lexicon, grammar and phonology of the languages in question.William Thweatt Talk | Contribs 16:03, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is a pseudo sprachbund? 

message: Can anyone find any resources discussing the Phnom Penh dialect?  Colloqial Phnom Penh has seperate pronunciation and certain grammatical differences from standard Khmer, and it does merit longer mention. ស្នេហា​១​សែន​ឆ្នាំ​ 16:55, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phnom Penh Dialect 

message: I downloaded the Unicode script following the instructions like I was supposed to, but I still can't view it properly! Kanzler31 (talk) 00:12, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: What exactly do you mean that you can't view it properly? Does the khmer script show up at all? Have you tried restarting your browser or computer? Otherwise, you can try going into your browser's internet options, find the font tab, then select the Khmer language and choose the Khmer OS font. In Internet Explorer, that's Tools > Internet Options, click the Fonts button at the bottom, and select Khmer from the dropdown language script list. In Firefox, go in Tools > Options, switch over to the Content tab, click the Advanced button under the Fonts & Colors section, and select Khmer from the first dropdown list. — Io Katai Talk 14:21, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm using Safari. Kanzler31 (talk) 03:13, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Please anyone reply. And btw, I properly installed the fonts and went to fonts in internet options in control panel and still does not fix the problem. In fact, I can't even see the font. No squares appear either, it just disappears! Is it the browser I'm using?
khmer Tep Soden (talk) 04:14, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Still having Khmer language problems! 

message: Or at least include this link in the present one.  It's the only online signlist for the Old Khmer writing system: (in French)
http://www.efeo.fr/espace_prive/paleoCIK.html
Glyphist (talk) 07:47, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Can someone make an Old Khmer article? 

message: I've twice reverted the addition of an external link that has been added by two IPs, as it looks a bit dodgy. The site is http://veayo.com/dictionary_installer.html, and claims it's a Khmer translation extension for Firefox. But when you try it, it tries to install something called "Select-n-Go", which Firefox blocks - and if you bypass the block you get a warning about possible malicious software - I decided not to go beyond that point. Beware if you see it added again -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 16:37, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Note, IPs were from two different ISPs in Phnom Penh -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 16:40, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

text: Looks shady indeed. Thanks for weeding that out. --Dara (talk) 17:35, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  External link? 

message: I don't have a source for this, but I do notice this is how many Cambodians pronounce /f/. In words such as telephone (in the US), it is pronounced something like /teːiləpoːun/, with a /p/ rather than a /pʰ/. --Dara (talk) 17:33, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Approximation for /f/ → /p/ 

message: Grammaire de la langue khmère (cambodgien) (1915)
https://archive.org/details/grammairedelala00maspgoog
Vocabulaire français-cambodgien
https://archive.org/details/VocabulaireFranais-cambodgien
Dictionnaire Cambodgien-Français (1902)
https://archive.org/details/abn6261.0001.001.umich.edu
Recherches sur le droit public des Cambodgiens (1894)
https://archive.org/details/recherchessurle00leclgoog
15:23, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  French materials on Khmer 

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message: မြန်မာဘာသာ SweSwelay (talk) 02:47, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  မြန်မာဘာသာ 

message: "The more colloquial registers have influenced, and have been influenced by, Thai, Lao, Vietnamese, and Cham, all of which, due to geographical proximity and long-term cultural contact, form a sprachbund in peninsular Southeast Asia.[5]"
* Cited source does not mention anything about colloquial forms of Khmer. Furthermore, if this is in reference to convergence in the MSEA linguistic area, Khmer is treated as a peripheral participant lacking, for example, monosyllabicity, tonality, and limited initial clusters. If it is to refer to the linguistic exchanges between Khmer and other Southeast Asian languages, there needs to be more specificity about the impact and domains of loanwords. For example, Thai influence is more apparent in poetic styles of Khmer than the colloquial register, in words relating to trade (e.g. numerals), and in some Tai-specific political terms (e.g. Chaofah). I will be removing this section.
"It is also the earliest recorded and earliest written language of the Mon–Khmer family, predating Mon and by a significant margin Vietnamese,[6]"
* What does "significant margin" refer to? And why does it matter that Khmer predates Vietnamese by a significant margin? I will be removing this.
"Pre-Angkorian Khmer, the Old Khmer language from 600 CE through 800, is only known from words and phrases in Sanskrit texts of the era."
* I don't know where this information is sourced, but this is absolutely false. If pre-Angkorian refers to texts written before the founding of Angkor, than there are undoubtedly many inscriptions in Old Khmer from 611 A.D. onwards until then. Please check Jenner 2009's dictionary of pre-Angkorian Khmer. I will be removing this.
"Old Khmer (or Angkorian Khmer) is the language as it was spoken in the Khmer Empire from the 9th century until the weakening of the empire sometime in the 13th century. Old Khmer is attested by many primary sources and has been studied in depth by a few scholars, most notably Saveros Pou, Phillip Jenner and Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow. Following the end of the Khmer Empire the language lost the standardizing influence of being the language of government and accordingly underwent a turbulent period of change in morphology, phonology and lexicon. The language of this transition period, from about the 14th to 18th centuries, is referred to as Middle Khmer and saw borrowing from Thai, Lao and, to a lesser extent, Vietnamese. The changes during this period are so profound that the rules of Modern Khmer can not be applied to correctly understand Old Khmer."
* First issue, Old Khmer has been studied by more than "a few scholars," and while the aforementioned scholars are important, there's no explanation for what contributions they've made or why it is important to mention them here.
* Second issue, Khmer was never not the language of governance for any subsequent polity in Cambodia. The two hundred year gap in epigraphic documentation, from the 15th to the 16th century, cannot be taken as evidence of lack of use. Furthermore, it is bad linguistics to suggest that the "turbulent changes" underwent by the language is due to a lack of a "standardizing influence." Furthermore, there's more extent Khmer prose and poetry in the Middle Khmer period than the Old Khmer period.
*Third issue, there is no specificity in what domain of loanwords come from Thai, Lao, or Vietnamese. There has been studies of Thai influence on Khmer during the Middle Khmer period in literary registers of the language, but none of the other two. Unless someone wants to add systematic studies documenting this, it stands as nothing more than conjecture.
*None of this is in the citations cited.
"This results in what appears to foreigners as separate languages and, in fact, isolated villagers often are unsure how to speak with royals and royals raised completely within the court do not feel comfortable speaking the common register."
* I cannot find this in the citations. And this conjecture seems both uninformative and orientalizing. Should we expect the average English person to be well-versed in speaking to the English royal and nobility?
Lafleuve (talk) 10:40, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inaccuracies and bad citations of sources 

message: The speaker is not a native speaker and struggles to express himself. 203.144.73.121 (talk) 08:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Khmer speaker video 

message: He's not a native speaker at all! The grammar is off everything is off he struggles with vowels and doesn't sound like who knows how to speak Khmer! 58.97.225.85 (talk) 04:03, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Khmer Speaker Video 

message: It would probably make more sense to use a different clip of someone speaking Khmer than someone "trying" to speak Khmer. I'm sure there's a lot out there, but I don't know which ones Wikipedia has the right to. Should it just be removed until someone finds one? Xiphactinus B (talk) 23:22, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed. --Paul_012 (talk) 06:06, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Tries to speak Khmer" 

message: Can we use Ethnologue to update the updated number of first and second language speakers? Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 17:50, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Using Ethnologue  

message: If this language does have Sanskrit influence, it would be a feudal language. That means, there will be different word forms for different social and other levels of individuals. Can anyone confirm this fact and add this to the main article? 
Sanskrit is a feudal language. And all languages of South Asia that has Sanskrit influence in them can be feudal languages. 150.129.102.175 (talk) 02:48, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feudal language