A short story of Cambodia's languages & dialects

[@emyall8931]

Thank you everyone for watching this video! It just got 1000 views today which is a milestone for the channel. So thank y'all, it's because of you!

[@D4rk4ura]

The fact that you have a French accent speaking Khmer is giving me such a strange effect, I feel like I understand Khmer 100% better because it's making me focus to what you're saying ! I've always wanted to hear a foreign accent with asian languages~~ You've done an amazing job btw you know 90% more of my native tongue than I do

[@emyall8931]

What a lovely message, thank you so much, this is making feel so good 🌈 That is motivating me to learn even more, thank you again for this ⭐

[@yasokhem5196]

I think the lady or the French people would say the same thing as you do, when a Cambodian try to speak French in France, but I know as a fact that most French people love to hear foreigners speaking with their own accents (I live in Germany but sometimes I shop in France, it is only 15 minutes crossing the Rhine river by ferry to the French soil...

[@jinalexia]

និយាយខ្មែរច្បាស់ល្អណាស់ សូមព្រះប្រទានពរដល់បងស្រីឲ្យជួបតែមនុស្សល្អ និងសំណាងល្អ🎉❤

[@erwtwert8518]

Thanks for the video! Well explained. As a Cambodian native, it is interesting to hear for the first time when you mentioned those French borrowed words as a part of modern Khmer. For me they are recognizable as borrowed. Maybe because I’m of old generation who still find it foreign to use those words 😢. but Younger Cambodian might think otherwise. I don’t see it as influence on Khmer, rather a source to borrow, especially for foreign concept/object.

[@arikarintosm5238]

អ្នកនិយាយភាសាខ្មែរបានល្អហើយ នៅដឹងស្គាល់ច្បាស់នៅប្រភពភាសាខ្មែរ ពិតជាល្អមែនទែន👍❤️ 🇰🇭ជាកាពិតណាស់ភាសានិយាយច្រើនជាងគេមាននៅ ខ្មែរកណ្តាល ខ្មែរក្រោម និងខ្មែរលើ។ និងនៅបណ្តាប្រទេសមួយចំនួនដែលមានប្រជាជនខ្មែរ។

[@mongkulthach6463]

Thank you for sharing, short but very informative.

[@anniekoung1455]

My Khmer grandpa (before the war) used to be a Khmer/French translator for the Cambodian government. I’ve always wondered how that would sound like and listening to you gave me that. Thank you!

[@emyall8931]

Thank you so much for that. This comment moved me a lot and I appreciate it. Definitely feeling honoured 🙏

[@apsaralover1]

You so cute of speaking Khmer language. Very impressive this amazing video thank you for sharing.

[@emyall8931]

Thank you so much 🙏

[@NhemsterOfficial]

You speak more than I do that's so awesome!

[@sombbca2169]

Very informative! I've been learning Khmer but it's my first time to watch this content in a pretty entertaining way. Keep it up! I'm sharing this to my friends whose learning Khmer too.

[@emyall8931]

Thank you so much for your comment, that makes me so happy and definitely gives me motivation to continue 🙏 I hope you and your friends having fun learning Khmer🍀🇰🇭 Thanks for sharing!

[@Nehrupry]

Opening my eyes from your research, Great video!

[@emyall8931]

Thank you Nehru! Your comment made my day!

[@sobesao6477]

well where youre wrong is laos thai and vietnam never existed when the khmer language was around to say modern day khmer came from laos or thai. Yes there are different dialects but its more of slang/accents. Tai laos is a complete different language which adapted to the khmer language.

[@paulkiss1981]

Wow, so many languages in SE Asia... So amazing

[@kimsons3544]

i love your explanations.

[@emyall8931]

Thanks a lot bong Kimson

[@kimsons3544]

@@emyall8931 🥰

[@TM-hd5iv]

Thank you for enlightening me

[@emyall8931]

Thank you for watching and this really nice comment, I really appreciate. Happy Khmer New Year!

[@shanghaichang]

This is very informative and entertaining. Your Khmer is almost as good as native speakers. Love from Khmer people

[@emyall8931]

Wow! Thank you so much Shanghai for such a nice message, អរគុណ 🙏🥺

[@chadb.7456]

Thank you teacher you are beautiful. I'm from 🇨🇦

[@acemany1126]

Much respect to you just for wanting to learn about other people culture and language. Take care.

[@emyall8931]

Wow thanks for the nice comment. I am truly glad you like the video and I will be soon back with more! Take care too

[@kongswethai3964]

cool, i speake Thai and know some Khmer Surin, i noticed that in Buriram they use "kh´mart for I, me, and in Surin, Si sakhet they use Kh´nyom as they do in Cambodja, same with the word beautiful , in Buriram they say "la-oo instead of "sa-át , from what i understand the words "kh´mart & "la-oo are older Khmer words, when i have been in Cambodja or have spoken to Khmer people from Cambodja they often say : "prang yey khmer boran, ancient khmer hehe there are also some khmer words in Thai language but some are considered as older words that they don´t use so often & some are more common and are nearly the same

[@michaelschnittker7388]

Many of the polite forms of words in Thai are Sanskrit/Pali words which came from the very strong influence of the Khmer kings on the Thai Ayutthaya kings. Many examples abound. Also royal Thai language comes from Khmer. High class spoken Thai roll their R’s in imitation of Khmer. Thai 😮don’t focus on contributions of Khmer to Thai, they don’t want to admit some of their language comes from Khmer.

[@isaacstone7899]

Do you read Khmer scriptures on the sandstone wall. Khmer people can read it today as long as they completed first grade. Vowel, alphabet and phonics, when people learned this they can write any new vocabularies just hear the sounds.

[@teeeenonop1782]

Banteay Meanchey, Oddar Meanchey, Siem Reap, Kampong Thom, and Preah Vihear speak the same dialect, it's very thick and accented. Battambang and Pursat have their own dialect, it's not as thick as the dialect north of the Tonle Sap. The dialects spoken in Kampong Chhnang, Kampong Speu, Kandal, Takeo, North Kampot, Prey Veng, Kampong Cham, Kratie, and Svay Rieng are very close to Standard Khmer. Southern Kampot is very similar to Khmer Krom.

[@khmermobiletv]

Thank you for work - French and Khmer people are very close tight that we have so much history together.

[@emyall8931]

Thank you Sam San

[@narayanaswamyvenkatraman2395]

Sanskrit has many scripi but mainly 1. Devanagari ( North India based ), 2. Grandh( South Indian based).

[@pleng6678]

Could you do a video on Khmer Khe? Can’t seem to find much informations about it online Cheers!

[@bunheng1036]

Bonne commentaire bravo à vous

[@fighterfighter9340]

If Indonesians and Malaysians study about Pre Angkorian Khmer, that's mean they study about their ancestor.

[@yasokhem5196]

To start with, you are speaking Khmer or Cambodian far better than I do.... Secondly, you are spot on regarding the Khmer or Cambodian Language which came from the "Mon Khmer" which source were a mixture of the Sri Lankan Pali Theravada Tri Pitaka Buddhism and the Dialects of the Native Indochinese (French Terminology) Tribal Aborigineses who had inhabited the peninsula for over 5000 years long before Burma/Thailand/Laos/Cambodia etc. came into being, plus the reason why the Thai people and the Cambodian people right now are accusing each other for stealing one another culture and they fight each other like bunches of kids, you have no idea ! Obviously, the Khmer or Cambodian Language did not come from the Hindu Angkorian Vedic Sound Sanskrit Language at all... The Khmers or Cambodians are up in arms for pointing this rational reason out to them and they try to send me back to history class !

[@lenguyenxuonghoa]

Khmer likes the long lost sister of Vietnamese language, we are no longer mutually intelligible to each other but at least are in the same family. Khmer sounds unique to me, it’s the only non-tonal national language of all Indochina countries ( Burmese, Thai-Laotian, Vietnamese are tonal languages ). Vietnamese and Khmer today are still conflicting because of many problems that I can’t write down here, I hope our relationship will be more positive soon

[@jubanjune4564]

Hello mam, I'm from North East India... According to the history our languages comes from Mon Khmer so i just want to know how many sub language in Mon Khmer??

[@Katcom111]

Thank you for sharing your video. I really like it!

[@emyall8931]

Thank you so much 🌟

[@Katcom111]

@@emyall8931 I have read some information about the group of indigenous people called the Samre who live in Siem Reap around Angkor. They were the last group in Siem Reap that spoken the Old Khmer language. It was documented by a French explorer/writer around the 1800s. In the 1970s a french linguist by the name of Marie Alexandrine​ Martin visited the Northeast of Cambodia and Thailand and met a group of people who belong to the Pearic group. She records audio and compares the Pearic words and Khmer words. I do believe the Khmer language are closely identical despite the Khmer are related to the Pearic group.

[@azizwar8489]

I am from meghalaya , north east india, belings to khasi pnar tribes, we also spoke khmer branch of languages.

[@mongkulthach6463]

Really?

[@linlynleen39]

Thai script influenced from Khmer Empire. Thai just born in 13th CE

[@user-cc4fz1cj3o]

i soo love your khmer accent!

[@ellohihi]

I just found this channel what happened? No more post

[@kimsreng1646]

C’est une belle vidéo 🤩 je suis cambodgien et je peux parler français mais un peu. ខ្ញុំ​ចូលចិត្ត​វិដេអូរបស់អ្នក

[@emyall8931]

Trop cool merci ! Je peux lire un peu le cambodgien maintenant aussi et merci d'avoir apprécié la vidéo 🙏☀️🍀

[@mrrbean6928]

និយាយខ្មែរបានល្អណាស់ Emille

[@emyall8931]

Som orkun Thearith! Kniom sangkhumtha bong ach stab khmer roborkhnhom now pel kraoy yeung nung chuob!

[@boreiyim8620]

អរគុណអ្នកស្រីដែលបានបកស្រាយយ៉ាងក្បោះក្បាយសម្រាប់កូនក្មែរដើម្បីសិក្សាតន្ត។

[@emyall8931]

អរគុណច្រើន 🙏

[@lamour-thelove2327]

Good detail

[@KJL111012]

Do you know where I can purchase a book that teaches the “old khmer” language and grammar?

[@emyall8931]

Hi there, let me check for you, are you looking to buy in Phnom Penh or online?

[@KJL111012]

@@emyall8931 hi! Sorry for the really late reply. I am looking to buy online please.

[@hermes8258]

Thank you for your video. Is it possible (pre-return to Asia) to learn Khmer-Surin or Khmer Krom pronunciation rather than standard Khmer? Are there any audio or text resources? And since presumably it is written the same way how useful would it be (indeed essential?) to learn the Khmer writing system? My background is one year of Sanskrit, living in Cambodia many years but having been to lazy to learn anything more than street Khmer to survive I speak very poor Khmer. Out of curiosity and as a challenge I would like to formally study non-standard Khmer - to use in the Mekong Delta and Isarn.

[@emyall8931]

Hi there, thank you for your comment! I am not really sure but I will definitely have a look, pretty sure we could find something. Your background is impressive and this is a very cool challenge. I will try to come back to you with updates on what I find.

[@sunbunthon9416]

Khmer language influenced to neighbour countries because some of neighbours were parts of Khmer

[@Handle_Edit]

No...Old Khmer Influenced language of neighboring Nations. The Modern Khmer Language was a reformed version derived by a Khmer monk of Chinese Descent. Now this is the reason why the (r) are silenced. Chinese people who speak Khmer don’t pronounce the “R”. There’s many differences because it’s bases off his pronunciation and many borrowed words from neighboring languages because the fact that the Khmers fell to them (Viet,Thai). The closest thing to old khmer is spoken in Surin. Battambang dialect is probably close to middle khmer. Phnom penh dialect is what I would call broken Khmer or Sino-Khmer. Speaking Khmer in a nasty Chin-Viet accent 😂 😂 😂. Phnom Penh is the Biggest Chinatown on Earth.

[@polydyvinsunset4796]

I’m austronesian I know I’m kindred to Indonesia

[@kylegerhart4122]

Please keep making awesome videos! Are you still in Kampuchea?

[@emyall8931]

Thanks so much Kyle, it make me so happy! Yes I am still in Cambodia. I really want to get back into it and I will try my best really soon 😊

[@shinmira4241]

❤❤❤❤love ur VDO 💖 💓

[@vuthycheychan8239]

La langue Khmer est plus facile à l'oral qu'à l'écriture.Des personnes d'origine cambodgienne immigrées en France, leurs descendants n'ont jamais appris un mot de la langue Khmer donc c'est dommage 🇰🇭🤘

[@dubagentselekions8221]

Linguist from South Africa learning various languages...if i could speak half of what you know already

[@mohasaldiary]

Hello sister I really like your explanation about Khmer languages That's I'm Cambodian can not knowing all 😁

[@emyall8931]

Thank you very much Mohasal!

[@UnoriginalEscobar]

You’ve got a new subscriber from me. 🙏🏼

[@emyall8931]

Thanks so much ✨

[@novsovannara8574]

Which part of Cambodia are you live in?

[@emyall8931]

Thank you for your question, I plan to do a video in the future to tell you a bit more about me, stay tuned 🌈

[@sunwhenmoondown]

Cute

[@zeynoarcan289]

ohhh je suis vraiment impressionnée par tes recherches et surtout je me sens inspirée par tant d'enthousiasme. You made my day my dear. Bisous

[@emyall8931]

Merci énormément Zeyno pour ce commentaire, ça me touche vraiment 🌞 You made my day too!

[@evelynelanguedoc5854]

Quelle jolie langue, en plus tu prends beaucoup de plaisir à la parler.

[@emyall8931]

Merci maman ! Oui j'adore et j'adore ❤️

[@philipecalvin6220]

Wow the voice so sweet 💞 love from Cambodia 🇰🇭 khmer is original language and influences to Thailand you see that Thai language similar to khmer and also culture Thailand also using Khmer culture, too but they never accept that they are using our culture they always say that khmer copied their culture !

[@ekie85]

You are beautiful

[@allidoiseatchannel1932]

I’m Cambodian and don’t know how to speak Khmer which is embarrassing.

[@emyall8931]

Thank you for your comment and opening up. Are you living in Cambodia? I am sure there is a good reason for that. If you feel embarrassed, you have the motivation and you want to change things, I would be more than happy to give you the contact details of my teacher (I can send by mail). If I can do it - even if I still have a lot of work - you can do it too! I will do a video starter pack with Khmer words so maybe that can be the first try! Good luck and let me know about your improvement 🍀

[@malinnaseang7783]

It's weird to hear French speaking Khmer

[@ThreeOaksMama]

I was going to comment that you speak khmer in a French accent. Then you spoke French. France colonized Cambodia for a while, hence the familiar words.

[@rubix8801]

Your vdo so funny😂😂

[@leclettony243]

Jolie vidéo même si tu grinces chérie haha

[@emyall8931]

Merci 😌 ce sera rectifier prochainement #mieuxvautprevenirquegrincer

[@xmistaxcashxcoll]

She know too much. Ima find you.