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Central Khmer

Phylum: Mon-Khmer

Genus: Khmer

Lat/lon: 13.0286971, 102.9896

ISO code: khm

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velarlabio-dentalalveolarpalatalvelarglottal
stopp, ɓt, ɗkʔ
trillr
fricativefsh
nasalmnɲŋ
approximantwj
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeiɨu
near-closeɪ
close-mideo
midə
open-midɛɔ
opena

Long series

frontcentralback
closeɨː
close-mid
midəː
open-midɔː
open

Diphthongs

/ɨə/, /oa/, /ou/, /ea/, /əɨ/, /aə/, /ao/, /aɛ/, /oə/, /uə/, /ie/

Licit initial clusters

str, skr, CC

Licit syllabic templates

(C)CV(C), strV(C), skrV(C)

Source: Haiman, John. 2011. Cambodian: Khmer. London Oriental and African language library v. 16. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co.; Wayland, Ratree. 1998. An acoustic study of Battambang Khmer vowels. Mon-Khmer Studies 28.43–62.

Comments: When the vowel nucleus is short, there has to be a final consonant.

Contributed by: Dmitry Nikolaev (dnikolaev@fastmail.com)