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The Khmer Language
It belongs to the group of
Australasian languages which are
supposed to have given birth to
Thai, Lao and Burma languages.
Some Indo-European influences
are also found in the Khmer
language. Like in many other far
East languages, the words are
invariable and there are no
precise mark indicated the
number, the gender, the mood nor
the tense… and therefore no
conjugation to learn. In Khmer
language, there are words which
play the role of our verbs,
adjectives, substantives but
they cannot be differentiated.
Their role only depends of their
place in the sentence.
On the other side, any Cambodian
word is to be considered in its
broadest sense. Therefore, it is
indispensable to precise its
mean with following determiners
and in an adequate increasing
determination.
It could be a words sequence in
a sentence if necessary to
gradually precise the meaning.
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Syntax :
- The words are
invariable. There is no conjugation, no
gender, no article.
- To indicate
plural, a determiner will be added : «
Bread three pieces »
- To indicate the
gender, you will have to precise
male/female : « ape female»
- For the tense,
adverbs will be added (yesterday,
tomorrow,…) but the verbs remain in the
infinitive.
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