Western Khmer dialect

Western Khmer
Cardamom Khmer
Chanthaburi Khmer
Native toThailand, Cambodia
RegionCardamom Mountains
Austroasiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
khm-car
GlottologNone
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Western Khmer, also known as Cardamom Khmer or Chanthaburi Khmer, is the dialect of the Khmer language spoken by the Khmer people native to the Cardamom Mountains on both sides of the border between western Cambodia (Pailin Province) and eastern Central Thailand (Chanthaburi Province). Developing in an historically isolated region, Western Khmer is the only dialect of modern Khmer to conserve the Middle Khmer phonation contrast of breathy voice versus modal voice that has been all but lost in the other dialects.[1][2]

Phonology

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Consonants

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Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive p (pʰ) t (tʰ) c (cʰ) k (kʰ) ʔ
Voiced plosive b d
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Liquid r
l
Fricative (f) s h
Approximant w j

(f) in loan words

Vowels

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Clear Vowels[1]
Front Central Back
short long short long short long
Close
Close-mid e eː ə o
Open-mid ɛ ɛː
Open a aː ɒ ɒː
Breathy Vowels[1]
Front Central Back
short long short long short long
Close i̤ i̤ː ɨ̤ ɨ̤ː ṳ ṳː
Close-mid e̤ː ə̤ː o̤ o̤ː
Open-mid ɛ̤ː ɔ̤ː
Open a̤

References

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  1. ^ a b c Wayland & Jongman. Chanthaburi Vowels: Phonetic and Phonemic Analyses, Mon-Khmer Studies 31:65-82
  2. ^ Acoustic correlates of breathy and clear vowels: the case of Khmer. Journal of Phonetics 31 (2003). pp 181-201


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