jessy101 wrote:Your khmer friends

Cambodian geographical names are often romanized with a transliteration system, where representations in the Khmer script are mapped regularly to representations in the Latin alphabet (sometimes with some additional diacritics). The results do not always reflect standard Khmer pronunciation, as no special treatment is given to unpronounced letters and irregular pronunciations, although the two registers of Khmer vowel symbols are often taken into account.

When transcription is used, words are romanized based on their pronunciation. However, pronunciation of Khmer can vary by speaker and region. Roman transcription of Khmer is often done ad hoc on Internet forums and chatrooms, the results sometimes being referred to as Khmenglish or Khmerlish. These ad hoc romanizations are usually based on English pronunciations of letters, although they may also be influenced by Khmer spelling (as with the use of s rather than h to represent a final aspirate).

Since some sounds can be represented by more than one symbol in Khmer orthography, it is not generally possible to recover the original Khmer spelling from a pronunciation-based Roman transcription. Even transliteration systems often do not preserve all of the distinctions made in the Khmer script.

prahkeitouj wrote:I use Phum dictionary.

jessy101 wrote:I'm sorry I don't understand English at all. Good luck



It's hard since people don't know how to enjoy life at least smile a bit.

SinnSisamouth wrote:

my woman has never said its the wrong word when I try to pronounce the phoentic word

it has the words listed alphabetically in english and the the last half in khmer

it can be had in pp for a couple of dollars