bilabial | labio-velar | labio-dental | alveolar | palatal | velar | glottal | |
stop | p, ɓ | t, ɗ | k | ʔ | |||
trill | r | ||||||
fricative | f | s | h | ||||
nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
approximant | w | j | |||||
lateral approximant | l |
front | central | back | |
close | i | ɨ | u |
near-close | ɪ | ||
close-mid | e | o | |
mid | ə | ||
open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
open | a |
front | central | back | |
close | iː | ɨː | uː |
close-mid | eː | oː | |
mid | əː | ||
open-mid | ɔː | ||
open | aː |
/ɨə/, /oa/, /ou/, /ea/, /əɨ/, /aə/, /ao/, /aɛ/, /oə/, /uə/, /ie/
str, skr, CC
(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)