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The Old Khmer Grammar has been brewed from a mass of memoranda and citations accumulated over long years of teaching Old Khmer to a succession of able graduate students. It is meant to serve the immediate needs of readers embarking on the study of the inscriptions, and assumes that they have some acquaintance with modern Khmer.

Khmer is the official language of Cambodia and is spoken by over 85% of the population. The two most important dialects, Standard and Phnom Penh, are both represented in this course. Romanization is used throughout Volume 1 but Khmer script is used exclusively in Volume 2.

This is a unique learning aid for making rapid headway in the acquisition of comprehension and speaking ability in Khmer, the language of Cambodia. In recent years, Cambodia has moved from a society menaced by war to a society orientated to commerce. With this shift in attention from military to social and economic matters has come an increase in the numbers of foreign visitors and residents in the country for the purposes of tourism, aid work or investment-related activities. Many of these foreigners or 'chun bor-tay' speak English as a first or second language, but know little of written or spoken Khmer.

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.

Originally published by Yale University Press, 1972. Reissued by Cornell Southeast Asia Program, 1988. 499 pages. (Oversized) This SEAP Language text has accompanying audio, available separately from: The Language Resource Center, Tape Sales, Room G11, Noyes Lodge, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4701.

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.

"2000+ Vocabulary English - Khmer Khmer - English" is a list of more than 2000 words translated from English to Khmer, as well as translated from Khmer to English.

Easy to use- great for tourists and English speakers interested in learning Khmer. As well as Khmer speakers interested in learning English.

This is a compact and travel–friendly Cambodian–English and English–Cambodian dictionary

The Tuttle Practical Cambodian Dictionary answers the need for a dictionary of Cambodian that is handy, current, and useful to those with little or no experience with the Cambodian language. With other Cambodian dictionaries are designed for those who can read Cambodian script, this dictionary provides entries in both script and romanized form.

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.

A thousand years of Cambodian epigraphy - from the 7th Century to the 15th - come to life in this handsome hardbound set.