Language council’s Khmer dictionary app is now live
Voun Dara | Publication date 02 November 2021 | 20:58 ICT
The National Council of Khmer Language (NCKL) at the Royal Academy of Cambodia on November 1 launched the online Khmer dictionary software on App Store and Play Store to make it easier for people to access the Khmer language in the digital age.

NCKL president Hean Sokhom said the only dictionary, named Lexicon KH on the two platforms, has gone through many stages.

“NCKL is also proud to participate in the development of the Khmer language through digitalisation to be in line with the era, such as building Khmer language data for future dictionaries, as well as the creation of software for disseminating vocabulary we have created over the years,” he said.

“However, there are also some shortcomings due to limited human and financial resources, so the speed in the formation of new words cannot keep up with scientific and technical advances.”

NCKL vice-president Sorn Pov said the council has achieved many results, including the implementation of technical dictionaries, glossaries, Khmer grammar books, creating word data in the Khmer dictionary, software development and Khmer language correction, among others.

Pov said the print version is still limited, prompting the council to have an online version in order to disseminate the glossary more widely. NCKL has selected 3,766 definitions for this online dictionary.
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I find Google translate works well for individual words. It mangles sentences though.