Language

Cambodian is in many respects a typical Southeast Asian language, whose syntax at least on first acquaintance seems to approximate that of any SVO pidgin. On closer acquaintance, however, because of the richness of its idioms, the language seems to be a forbiddingly alien form of “Desesperanto” – a language of which one can read a page and understand every word individually, and have no inkling of what the page was all about.

English speaking guide for Cambodians. In English and Khmer script.

Learn Khmer Language The Right Way
Within this book we aim to teach you Khmer language that you can actually use in Cambodia. Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device.

Khmer (often referred to colloquially as Cambodian) is the language of Cambodia. It is the second most spoken Austroasiatic language after Vietnamese, with 16 million native speakers and an estimated additional million second language speakers. Ideal for businesspeople, travelers, and students, this guide includes 4,000 dictionary entries; phonetics that are intuitive for English speakers; essential phrases on topics such as transportation, dining out, and business, and concise grammar and pronunciation sections.

Khmer or Cambodian, is the language of the Khmer people and the official language of Cambodia. With approximately 16 million speakers, it is the second most widely spoken Austroasiatic language (after Vietnamese). Khmer has been considerably influenced by Sanskrit and Pali, especially in the royal and religious registers, through the vehicles of Hinduism and Buddhism. It is also the earliest recorded and earliest written language of the Mon–Khmer family, predating Mon and by a significant margin Vietnamese.

This guide to Khmer (Cambodian) for the first time collects the most common Khmer (Cambodian) phrases and expressions. This phrasebook includes greetings, food items, directions, sightseeing and many other categories of expressions that will help you when traveling.

Colloquial Cambodian provides a step-by-step course in Cambodian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Cambodian in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Hardcover.
This is the best and most complete Cambodian-English dictionary published. It would be nice if it were released again, there is a need for a work this comprehensive in scope.

This work is reissued as an aid not only to students of the Cambodian language but also to Cambodians residing in English-speaking countries. The glossary includes some 10,000 words, with definitions that are useful and complete at a general level, beyond the specific context of the published readings that the glossary was originally designed to accompany. Although less comprehensive than a dictionary, it fills an important purpose as an inexpensive aid for speakers of either language.

Compiled by H. L. Shorto, Judith M. Jacob and E. H. S. Simmonds. Preface, index. "The bibliographies contained in this volume deal with two of the most complex and extensive of the language families which make up the linguistic jigsaw of South East Asia, ranging between them from the Yangtze to Malaya and from Assam to Tongking.