What Is This Vowel?

[Zhivago451]

ខ្ញុំ​ស្រលា[ញ់​]អ្នក


What is that vowel above ញ្? The ់

How do you pronounce that? I have been studying the Khmer alphabet and all the vowels and no matter what source I go to I do not seem to be able to find that vowel anywhere to grab the pronunciation. It seems to be a rare vowel. Or is it a vowel? Appreciate the help in this matter guys. Thank you very much in advance.

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Not a vowel. It's a diacritic called 'the bantaq'.

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/khmer/writin ... aq_set.htm

[Jamie_Lambo]

ខ្ញុំ​ស្រលា[ញ់​]អ្នក


What is that vowel above ញ្? The ់

How do you pronounce that? I have been studying the Khmer alphabet and all the vowels and no matter what source I go to I do not seem to be able to find that vowel anywhere to grab the pronunciation. It seems to be a rare vowel. Or is it a vowel? Appreciate the help in this matter guys. Thank you very much in advance.

yeah its not a vowel, and its not rare, its fairly common, it kinda shortens the sound,

here are some common words off top of my head that have it...
យល់ - Yol - to understand
អត់ - Ot - No/Not
ស្លាប់ - Slap - Die
ត្រង់ - Krong - Straight
ចង់ - Jong - Want
អង់គ្លេស - Ongkles - English
ឆ្ងាញ់ - Chhnganh - Tasty
ស្តាប់ - Sdap - Listen
ខ្វល់ - Kvol - Care/Worry
រស់ - Ros - to Live
ច្បាស់ - Cbas - Clearly
ប្រាក់ - Brak - Money
នាក់ - Neak - People
សម្លាញ់ - Somlanh - Sweetheart
សក់ - Sok - Hair
ប្រដាល់ - Pradal - Boxing
សម្រាប់ - Somrab - For
របស់ - Robos - Possessive word/belonging to
ណាស់ - Nas - A lot/Very
សំខាន់ - Somkan - Important

and also when a weak consonant has the ា ea vowel, and the ending consonant has ់ it changes the vowel from ea to oa, for example in the word មាន - Mean(to have) & មាន់ - Moan (chicken), also examples are the words ស្គាល់ - Skoal(to know) & គាត់ - Koat(him/her)

[Zhivago451]

Thank you so much for your help. That little bit about the ា vowel was extremely helpful and I appreciate you

[Zhivago451]

And what is this character called? ឯ
I know how to pronounce it but I can't seem to find it anywhere on my keyboard or anywhere that instructs vowels, consonants, or anything. But it appears in the words "where is" នៅឯណា

Thanks in advance ^_^

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On the Google Translate keyboard, press Ctrl + Alt button at the bottom.

[Jamie_Lambo]

And what is this character called? ឯ
I know how to pronounce it but I can't seem to find it anywhere on my keyboard or anywhere that instructs vowels, consonants, or anything. But it appears in the words "where is" នៅឯណា

Thanks in advance ^_^

its an independent Vowel, with the same sound as អែ

common words i use it in are...
ឯកា - Ai Kaa - Alone/lonely
ឯនេះ - Ai Nih - Here
ឯនោះ - Ai Nuh - There
នៅឯណា​ - Nov Ai Naa - Where are/is