Perhaps knowing the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) helps as the spelling doesn't really reflect how a word sound. By using dictionary.tovnah.com, I learnt that the pronunciation of ដប 'bottle' is /dɑɑp/, but instead of /ɑɑ/, I could just write /ɑː/, so /dɑːp/. You probably know how the conson...

សប្បាយ អឺងកង រាំលេងម្ដងឱ្យបានរីករាយ Sabbay Eung Kong, Rom Leng Mdong Aoy Ban Rik Reay Happy and noisy, playfully dancing the one time allowed to be happy. When the song is sung again, it changes to, សប្បាយ កន្លង Very happy មិត្ត ភក្តី យើងទាំងអស់គ្នា Mitt Peakdey Yerng Tang Os Knea All our true frie...