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	Khmer
		Khmer is spoken as a first or second language by 6 million people, or 90% of the population of Cambodia.
		Khmer is an extremely vowel-rich language with a vowel inventory consisting of twenty-five to twenty-seven short and long vowels, depending on the dialect.
		Khmer has a well-developed system of personal pronouns that is sensitive to relative status of the interlocutors, such as their age, perceived status, as well as to levels of intimacy.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/april/khmer.html (788 words)

	Cambodian View in the World View: the eyes of Khmer Scholars through Buddhism
		Khmer, or Cambodian, is spoken by some 7 million people and is the official language of Cambodia where 90 percent of the population--about 6 million people--speaks it as a first or second language.
		Khmer is a language that is devoid of inflection in either nouns or verbs; this type of language is sometimes referred to as isolating.
		Khmer is the national and official language of Cambodia and is used in the media, taught in the schools at all levels (with some exceptions in higher educational institutions), used in government administration, in the judiciary, and in most social, everyday, contexts.
	www.cambodianview.com /khmer-language.html (1289 words)

	Exotic Locales Concept Dictionary
		The Khmer script is adapted to the language by adding extra vowel signs and various diacritic marks, and by using the choice of consonant as well as of vowel signs to determine the particular vowel sound represented.
		The script called Linear B is a syllabic system that was used on the island of Crete (and parts of the nearby mainland) to write the oldest recorded variety of the Greek language.
		The Ogham script was used in Ireland and England prior to the introduction of the Latin alphabet.
	www.cit.gu.edu.au /~davidt/cit3611/C_UNIX/exotic_locales.htm (1370 words)

	Cambodian Language - Help Khmer Script
		Khmer (or Cambodian) is a member of the Mon-Khmer family of languages which were once spoken over a wide area of mainland South-East Asia.
		Today, Khmer is the predominant and official language of Cambodia and is also spoken in dialect by minority peoples residing in Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos.
		The Khmer Script is an phonetic alphabet and is derived from the Grantha form of the Brahmi Script which originated in India.
	www.bongthom.com /akonline/helppages/helpkhmerscript.asp (388 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Khmer
		The Khmer script was one of the earliest writing systems used in Southeast Asia, first appearing in the 7th century CE.
		It derived immediately from the Pallava script, a variety of the Grantha script of South India, which in turn ultimately is descended from the ancient Brahmi script of India.
		Khmer is a syllabic alphabet, meaning that a letter represents a syllable in the form of a consonant followed by an inherent vowel.
	www.ancientscripts.com /khmer.html (717 words)

	Khmer - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
		Khmer is an Austro-Asiatic language, and is the script and language of Cambodia.
		The Khmer script has also been used for writing Pali and Sanskrit, and appears to have been the inspiration for Thai.
		The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
	www.alanwood.net /unicode/khmer.html (266 words)

	Tom's learning Khmer - Cambodian (Khmer) language
		Khmer is a member of the Mon-Khmer group of Austroasiatic languages and is the official language of Cambodia.
		Unlike the languages of its bordering countries, Khmer is not a tonal language, which means that there are no special intonations of words in order to alter their meanings.
		The Khmer alphabet is descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India (which was originally developed to write Sanksrit) by way of the Pallava script, which was used in southern India and South-east Asia during the 5th and 6th Centuries AD.
	www.geocities.com /tomslearningkhmer (621 words)

	Introduction to the Thai Language
		Khmer institutions had always had an influence on the Thai court and this influence increases when the Thai imported Khmer intelligentsia into Thailand after the fall of Angkor.
		In the 10th century A.D., the Khmer (Cambodians) began ro migrate into the Thai area and eventually succeeded the Mon so that the Thai came to be ruled by the empire of the Khmer.
		The script on this inscription is similar to the Grantha script.
	www.thaioregon.com /thailanguage.htm (2394 words)

	Khmer/Cambodian alphabet, pronunciation and language
		The Khmer alphabet is descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India by way of the Pallava script, which was used in southern India and South East Asia during the 5th and 6th Centuries AD.
		The Khmer alphabet closely resembles the Thai and Lao alphabets, which were developed from it.
		Khmer shares many features and much vocabulary with Thai as a result of centuries of two-way borrowing.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/khmer.htm (317 words)

	Edge Translation
		Khmer is one of the main Austro-Asiatic languages.
		Khmer was first written during the period of Indian influence and Khmer script is probably the oldest writing system among the Southeast Asian cultures next to Mon script.
		Khmer also has a number of diacritics, which can change the series of the consonant or change the pronunciation of the vowel.
	www.edgetranslation.net /cambodian1.htm (553 words)

	Khmer language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Khmer is one of the main Austroasiatic languages and has had considerable influence from Sanskrit and Pali.
		Instead each consonant belongs to one two series and the vowel produced depends which series the consonant belongs to (incidentally Khmer script an abugida rather than a true alphabet).
		Khmer also has a number of diacritics which can change the series of consonant or change the pronunciation of the
	www.freeglossary.com /Khmer_language (628 words)

	Customs & Languages
		Khmer people speak the Khmer language and use the Khmer script, which may have a vague relationship with the Thai language and script but is far more complicated - yet maybe easier.
		The Khmer language does not have the tonalities that complicate Thai, Lao, Vietnamese and Chinese to mention only some of the surrounding languages that use tonalities for their vowel systems.
		When the Khmers Rouges had expelled all foreigners including Christian priests and preachers, Buddhist monks went to burn incense and candles for the Christian Idols in their churches and places of worship.
	www.taxivantha.com /1_Cambodia/14.htm (1366 words)

	Khmer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Khmer language, the language of the Khmer and the official language of Cambodia
		Khmer script, the script used to write the Khmer language and Khmer Loeu languages
		Khmer Empire, which ruled much of Indochina from the 9th to the 13th centuries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khmer (137 words)

	Khmer Fonts
		Khmer writing composes cluster of words rather than clusters of characters as comparing to the Latin (Roman) writing.
		Khmer font was first introduced to the computer world in 1984 by Professor Gerald Difflot and Sokhuom Khek.
		In addition, the Khmer characters bear similar pronunciation and form to their counter-part, the English alphabet.
	www.khekbros.com /html/about_font.html (187 words)

	talesofasia.com :: View topic - Preserving culture through lettering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Anyway, Khmer is identified as having 12,110,065 native speakers in Cambodia and 13,276,630 worldwide, which given those figures, it's probably quite a safe bet that the Khmer language is not in danger of extinction.
		Khmer is still very much a live language; dificult for the westerner; but Khmer kids seem remarkably quick at picking up languages.
		Just as in China, where millions of Chinese use non-Roman script in their day-to-day interactions with computers (it should be noted that the Chinese Communist Party's original simplification of the alphabet had nothing to do with technological limitations but rather with perceptions that this would increase rural literacy, which it did to an extent.
	www.talesofasia.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=2650 (2512 words)

	The Khmer Flute
		Khmer flutists, according to Soy Saret, a Music Department professor at the Royal University of Fine Art and Culture, favor five traditional songs.
		This Khmer orchestra was a royal ensemble consisting of stringed instruments.
		Presently the big flute seldom is played in public, and it is believed that this large style has fallen from the pages of Khmer music history, according to the year 2000 edition of "Traditional Khmer Music." Regardless of the flute's shape or size, however, its hollow sound is universally adored.
	www.leisurecambodia.com /Leisure_Cambodia/No.24/Khmer_flute.html (753 words)

	The Cambodia Daily WEEKEND
		Bauhahn believes Khmer is among the most complex languages in the world, and he found it difficult to devise a computer program that would faithfully capture the language without distorting it or violating its rules.
		Khmer Unicode moved toward completion and the people involved had no reason to suspect anything was wrong.
		The Khmer team was told at a subsequent Unicode consortium in California, that they would be allowed to add the lunar calendar characters and the fortune teller remarks, but that nothing else would be changed.
	www.camnet.com.kh /cambodia.daily/selected_features/unicode.htm (3121 words)

	Khmer Translation Services
		Khmer is one of the main Austro-Asiatic languages, and has had considerable influence from Sanskrit, and Pali.
		Some of these influences, such as Sanskrit and Pali, come from the influence of Buddhism and Hinduism on Khmer culture; the latter two are the result of linguistic contact and geographic proximity.
		It is also notable that the Cambodian script has fewer vowel symbols than the language has vowel phonemes.
	www.verbatimsolutions.com /languages/khmer.php (395 words)

	Khmer Writing - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		Khmer and Mons were influenced by India directly, while Burmese Thai Laos where influenced by India Via Khmer and Mons.
		If you've study Khmer and Thai, then you'd notice that Thai script is basically Khmer script without the sak or hair.
		The latter is used in Khmer and 'Thai' tatoos.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=4659 (1546 words)

	The Catholic Church in Cambodia - L'Eglise Catholique au Cambodge
		Since the arrival of computers in Cambodia from the 80's, there was a need to be able to represent the Khmer script, or language, digitally.
		Khmer Unicode is the only globally standardised encoding, or recording, of the Khmer script.
		Khmer Unicode is also available for Macintosh: [http://homepage.mac.com/bauhahnm/applications.html] but has not been tested with this site.
	www.catholiccambodia.org /en/unicode.php (520 words)

	How to Install Khmer Unicode on your Windows XP Computer \| Society for Better Books in Cambodia
		This tutorial will walk you through the process of enabling Khmer Unicode on your Windows XP computer.
		Now go here and download the latest Khmer Unicode Install Program (currently it is version 1.2.5) and once it is finished downloading, run the program.
		When you want to type in English, make sure "EN" is showing, and when you want to type in Khmer Unicode, make sure the "CA" is showing.
	www.sbbic.org /en/install-khmer-unicode-windows (349 words)

	Intermediate khmer (CAM 201-202)
		Become acquainted with aspects of Khmer culture and social behavior that relate to the readings.
		Based on our experience, we feel it is necessary at the outset to review and/or familiarize the students with telecommunications literacy involving Khmer font.
		Emails are sent out to students regarding Khmer input and display on the Web and for typing text.
	www.hawaii.edu /khmer/IntKhmer.html (277 words)

	Unicode Technical Report Number 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Burmese script is used to write Burmese, the majority language of Myanmar (formerly Burma) and Pali.
		Variations and extentions of the script are used to write other languages of the region, such as Shan and Mon, and also to write Sanskrit.
		The earliest Mon inscription, found at Lopburi in Thailand, dates from the eight century and is written in the Pallava script used at the Hinayana Buddhist center of Conjeeveram in the area of Madras on the east coast of India.
	www.unicode.org /reports/tr1.html (2997 words)

	FAQ and Resources on Khmer in Unicode
		KHMER LETTER LA U+17A1 is a fairly recent Khmer invention so is absent in the Pali series (but has recently been found in a subscript form in Northern Thai use of the Khmer script).
		A Khmer Unicode keyboard layout for Windows may be created using Keyman 6.0 (available in the Developer version from Marc Durdin of Travultesoft; however once a keyboard is created a run-time version is available for free for non-commercial or non-governmental use).
		While working on TECkit scripts for cross-platform transcoding of Khmer from legacy to Unicode (encodings derived from legacy fonts by Sok Nhep Arun and fonts by Maurice Bauhahn) I've developed some methodologies and small Perl scripts that could be improved...but may be a help to beginners: TECkit.html.
	www.bauhahnm.clara.net /Khmer/Welcome.html (5540 words)

	Khmer Unicode Mailing List 2001/11/12
		We need to talk to find out a best solution to make Khmer people happy and also you and Bauhahn by seeing just only the UNICODE Khmer script table, not by the representation, because it is easy to use technologies to achieve it.
		While it may be true that the encoding implementation of Khmer script does not closely follow the cultural perceptions that Khmer people have of the script, might it be possible that this inconsistency could be masked from
		This would be somewhat comparable to the implementation of Latin script not directly reflecting a relationship between upper and lower case pairs that does exist.
	www.bauhahnm.clara.net /Khmer/KUM20011112.html (1983 words)

	How can I make Windows work with Khmer Unicode? \| Khmer Software Initiative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Once this support is installed, you should download and select this installer, it will install for you some Khmer Unicode fonts, the keyboard driver and, if you have MS Office 2003, it will find the correct version of the usp10.dll file and install it for you.
		If a version of the file, placed there by MS Office 2003 is present, the installer will -by default- give you this location as the source of the usp10.dll file, otherwise will ask you browse for the location of such file.
		The Khmer Software Initiative is being coordinated by the Wordforge Foundation and is being carried in partnership with National Information Communications Technology Development Authority (NiDA), as part of the necessary work for the accomplisment of the Master Plan for the Implementation of Open Source Software in Cambodia.
	www.khmeros.info /drupal/?q=en/support/faq/installation (721 words)

	Khmer440 - Cambodia bars, restaurants, travel and living » Blog Archive » The Divided Heart Movie Premier
		Although the movie is all in Khmer, I could easily manage to follow it with my modest language skills and the fact that such a narrative is almost universal in storytelling around the world gives the viewer a sense of ease with the plot.
		One of the refreshing things about this Khmer movie was the fact that it was just a simple love story, or love triangle, set against life in modern Phnom Penh, with pretty much only the obstacles that you face in everyday life.
		I will not give away too much of the ending, but it will suffice to say that, as one would suspect, all turns out well in the end, the guys survive, the girl escapes with her honour and virtue intact and the wicked get ‘a right royal arse kicking’, to quote a friend of mine.
	www.khmer440.com /?p=498 (1187 words)

	Khmer Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The appearance of fl-clad Khmer Rouge cadres in Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975 signified the end of Lon Nol who had already resigned and fled the country on April 1.
		Although Khmer Rouge cadres would conspicuously display confiscated ballpoint pens in their shirt pockets as a symbol of power; they did not like writers, who were found mostly among the bourgeois new people.
		A new generation of writers, born after 1975 with little memory of the Khmer Rouge era, began to publish short fiction in the scores of newspapers that began to flourish.
	www.khmerinstitute.org /articles/art08.html (4228 words)

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