FFS - not even consensus on the alphabet?

Have questions or resources regarding Khmer Culture? This forum is all about the Kingdom of Cambodia's culture. Khmer language, Cambodian weddings, French influence, Cambodian architecture, Cambodian politics, Khmer customs, etc? This is the place. Living in Cambodia can cause you to experience a whole new level of culture shock, so feel free to talk about all things related to the Khmer people, and their traditions. And if you want something in Khmer script translated into English, you will probably find what you need.
flying chicken
Expatriate
Posts: 1559
Joined: Sat May 17, 2014 5:51 am
Reputation: 0

Re: FFS - not even consensus on the alphabet?

Post by flying chicken »

StroppyChops wrote:You've just argued a point opposite to the one you're trying to make, FC, but pray continue!
Can you point it out?
EVERYONE BOW DOWN AND PAY EXTREME HOMAGE TO HIS MAJESTIES flying chicken©
User avatar
StroppyChops
The Missionary Man
Posts: 10598
Joined: Tue May 06, 2014 11:24 am
Reputation: 1032
Australia

Re: FFS - not even consensus on the alphabet?

Post by StroppyChops »

flying chicken wrote:
StroppyChops wrote:You've just argued a point opposite to the one you're trying to make, FC, but pray continue!
Can you point it out?
Not at this time of night, I'll give it a go in daylight.
Bodge: This ain't Kansas, and the neighbours ate Toto!
flying chicken
Expatriate
Posts: 1559
Joined: Sat May 17, 2014 5:51 am
Reputation: 0

Re: FFS - not even consensus on the alphabet?

Post by flying chicken »

Aight.
EVERYONE BOW DOWN AND PAY EXTREME HOMAGE TO HIS MAJESTIES flying chicken©
honestyrocks
Tourist
Posts: 1
Joined: Fri Dec 05, 2014 8:12 pm
Reputation: 0

Re: FFS - not even consensus on the alphabet?

Post by honestyrocks »

At the time I made this table, I took 1500 popular Khmer words and wrote an algorithm to spit out how many words of the 1500 contained each character. in parenthesis is the English keyboard equivalent for typing. The others, vowels, diacritics and supplemental consonants are in different tables. There are a whole bunch of tables in the android software learnitbetter that I thought were useful. similar letter tables, and sorted by the english alphabet, ect. If anyone knows where I can rent an apple computer for a week I'll port it to iphone .

ក ្ក kâ 484​​​​​​ (k)
ខ ្ខ khâ 97 (x)
គ ្គ kô 132 (K)
ឃ ្ឃ khô 8 (X)
ង ្ង ngô 314 (g)​
ច ្ច châ 223 (c)
ឆ ្ឆ chhâ 33 (q)​​​
ជ ្ជ chô 174 (p)​​​
ឈ ្ឈ chhô 18 (Q) ​
ញ ្ញ nhô 75 (J)​​​​​
ដ ្ដ dâ 125 (d)​
ឋ ្ឋ tâh 9 (z) ​
ឌ ្ឌ dô 2 (D)​​​
ឍ ្ឍ thô 1 (Z)​​​​​​
ណ ្ណ nâ 61 (N)​​
ត ្ត tâ 309 (t)
ថ ្ថ thâ 59 (f)
ទ ្ទ tô 180 (T)
ធ ្ធ thô 71 (F)​​​​​
ន ្ន nô 429 (n)
ប ្ប bâ/pa 393 (b)
ផ ្ផ phâ 49 (C)​​
ព ្ព pô 149 (B)
ភ ្ភ phô 72 (P) ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
ម ្ម mô 317 (m)
យ ្យ yô ee 199 (y)​
រ ្រ rô 530 (r)
ល ្ល ​​​​​ lô 361 (l)
វ ្វ wô 143 (v)
ស ្ស sâ 389 (s)
ហ ្ហ hâ 79 (h)
ឡ lâ 23 (L)​
អ ្អ ’â ’ 162 (G)
Samouth
Expatriate
Posts: 3679
Joined: Thu Dec 11, 2014 8:25 am
Reputation: 14
Location: Phnom Penh
Burundi

Re: FFS - not even consensus on the alphabet?

Post by Samouth »

It is really true that Khmer is a very hard language to learn specially when it comes to writing. There are 33 consonants and many vowels in our language. Even though i am Cambodia, i learned it for many years or so 12 years, but i still find it hard to remember them. By the way that word Australia showed in the picture was written wrongly. We don't write អូស្ដ្រាសី but អូស្ត្រាលី. They look quite similar but អូស្ត្រាសី doesn't make any sense in our language.
បើសិនធ្វើចេះ ចេះឲ្យគេកោត បើសិនធ្វើឆោត ឆោតឲ្យគេអាណិត។

If you know a lot, know enough to make them respect you, if you are stupid, be stupid enough so they can pity you.
Post Reply Previous topicNext topic
  • Similar Topics
    Replies
    Views
    Last post

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Jerry Atrick, khmerhamster, Ot Mean Loi and 191 guests