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Lingo7 lets you read books with a translation under every sentence in 49 languages. Khmer is not one of them yet. Ask for it below, and see what adding it takes and what reading Khmer involves.
Lingo7 does not read Khmer yet: the app has no Khmer dictionary, audio or books, and Khmer text needs splitting into words, since they run together. You can vote for Khmer here. Leave your email to vote; we add the most requested languages first and write to you once, when Khmer is ready.
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The demo below is the live reader with a German book. Khmer would work the same way once it is added.
Spoken in: Cambodia; Khmer communities in southern Vietnam and Northeast Thailand
Modern Khmer uses 33 consonant letters (the script has 35, two of them obsolete), split into two series, the a-series and the o-series. The series decides how every vowel sign is read: the same mark has one sound after an a-series consonant and another after an o-series one, so a reader always checks the consonant first. Two small marks, called "mouse teeth" and treisapt, can move a consonant from one series to the other.
Consonant clusters are written by placing the second consonant under the first in a subscript form, called the "foot" of the letter. Words within a sentence run together without spaces, and a space works more like a comma, marking a pause between phrases. Khmer texts mostly use Khmer digits (แ แก แข แฃ), with Western numerals used to a lesser extent.
Khmer is not tonal, unlike Thai, Lao, Burmese and Vietnamese. Much formal and religious vocabulary comes from Sanskrit and Pali, and the modern Khmer dictionary goes back to an edition compiled under the monk Chuon Nath and first printed in 1938. StoryWeaver, a free online library, has more than a hundred illustrated Khmer stories for beginners.
Our free tools cover the 49 languages in the app.
There is no date yet. We add the most requested languages first, and Khmer needs the work described on this page. Leave your email in the form and we will write to you once, when Khmer is ready.
Not yet. Lingo7 has no Khmer dictionary, audio or shelf of books, so a Khmer book would not get the sentence-by-sentence translation and word lookups the app is built on. The 49 languages it does read are listed on the home page.
One vote per email address per language. The count on this page shows a number once at least 10 people have asked, and refreshes within a minute of a new vote. Your email is stored only to tell you when Khmer launches, and deleted whenever you ask at support@lingoseven.com.
No. Unlike Thai, Lao, Burmese and Vietnamese, Khmer has no tones. Instead the script divides consonants into two series, and the series decides how the vowel after a consonant is pronounced.
Because every consonant belongs to one of two series, and each vowel sign has one reading for each. A reader learns which series each consonant belongs to, and two small marks can shift a consonant from one series to the other.
Not between words. Words in a sentence run together, and a space marks a pause, much like a comma in English. A reader finds the word boundaries from spelling and vocabulary.