Kmerski jezik

**Kmerski jezik** (ភាសាខ្មែរ) je zvanični jezik Kambodže. To je jezik naroda Kmer, najbrojnije etničke zajednice u zemlji. Ovaj se jezik ubraja u austroazijsku jezičku porodicu.

Sa susednim tai, lao i vijetnamskim jezikom, kmerski jezik sačinjava jezički savez. Za razliku od njih, kmerski nema melodijski akcenat.

Najraniji zapisi kmerskog jezika potiču iz 6-7. veka nove ere. Preko budizma i hinduizma, sanskrit je uticao na kmerski jezik. Kmerski jezik se zapisuje sopstvenim, kmerskim pismom, koje je slično tai i lao pismu.

Kmerskim jezikom se služi oko 13-21 milion ljudi.

## Osobine
Red reči u kmerskom odgovara šablonu: subjekat-glagol-objekat. Reči se najčešće sastoje iz jedne morfeme, a za tvorbu reči povremeno služe prefiksi i infiksi. Kmerske reči najčešće imaju dva ili tri sloga. Glagoli se često povezuju u nizove. Imenice nemaju rod ni broj. Kmerski jezik razlikuje nekoliko nivoa učtivog obraćanja.

### Fonetika

Napomena: izgovor je označen po IPA.

## Literatura

*Ferlus, Michel. (1992). *Essai de phonétique historique du khmer* (Du milieu du premier millénaire de notre ère à l'époque actuelle)", Mon–Khmer Studies XXI: 57-89)
*Headley, Robert and others. (1977). *Cambodian-English Dictionary*. Washington, Catholic University Press. 
*Herington, Jennifer and Amy Ryan. (2013). Sociolinguistic Survey of the Khmer Khe in Cambodia . Chiang Mai: Linguistics Institute, Payap University.
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*Jacob, Judith. 1974. *A Concise Cambodian-English Dictionary*. London, Oxford University Press. 
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*Jacob, J. M., & Smyth, D. (1993). *Cambodian linguistics, literature and history: collected articles*. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 
*Keesee, A. P. K. (1996). *An English-spoken Khmer dictionary: with romanized writing system, usage, and indioms, and notes on Khmer speech and grammar*. London: Kegan Paul International. 
*Meechan, M. (1992). *Register in Khmer the laryngeal specification of pharyngeal expansion*. Ottawa: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. 
*Sak-Humphry, C. (2002). *Communicating in Khmer: an interactive intermediate level Khmer course*. Manoa, Hawai'i: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa. OCLC: 56840636
*Smyth, D. (1995). *Colloquial Cambodian: a complete language course*. London: Routledge. 
*Stewart, F., & May, S. (2004). *In the shadow of Angkor: contemporary writing from Cambodia*. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 
*Tonkin, D. (1991). *The Cambodian alphabet: how to write the Khmer language*. Bangkok: Trasvin Publications. 

## Vanjske veze

* Etnološki izveštaj o kmerskom jeziku
* Uvod u kmerski jezik
* englesko-kmersko-engleski rečnik 
*Kheng.info—An online audio dictionary for learning Khmer, with thousands of native speaker recordings and text segmentation software.
*Language Links Database - language links and resources for Khmer language
*SEAlang Project: Mon–Khmer languages. The Khmeric Branch
*Khmer Swadesh vocabulary list (from Wiktionary's Swadesh-list appendix)
*Dictionary and SpellChecker open sourced and collaborative project based on Chuon Nath Khmer Dictionary
*How to install Khmer script on a Windows 7 computer 
*How to install Khmer script on a Windows XP computer 
**[http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Profile.aspx?LangID=75&menu=004 Khmer] * at UCLA Language Materials project 
*Online Khmer & English dictionary 
*Khmer Online Dictionaries 
*USA Foreign Service Institute (FSI) Cambodian basic course