About the Khmer language

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Today we’re exploring the language of one of the greatest empires that ever ruled - Khmer language, the official language of Cambodia and once the language of the mighty Khmer empire. Those were the guys who built Angkor Wat for example - the biggest temple complex in the world. With such a history, Khmer language doesn't lack interesting features!
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[@ennimit9503]

On behalf of Cambodian people I would like say thanks to you for making the history of Cambodia. Cambodia has a long history, rich cultures, and friendly people. ❤

[@billrogers5219]

I worked in Cambodia for seven years and eventually got good enough to give technical lectures in Khmer. The two hardest things about learning it are (1) the lack of a standardized system of transliteration, because even though you need to learn the writing system eventually, it's so hard that learning basic vocabulary and simple conversation directly in the Khmer script is super slow if you do not have a transliteration. There are multiple systems, none of which are great. and (2) all the subtly different vowel sounds - they take lots of practice. A French text for learning Khmer had great advice about getting all those vowels right - "la persistence vaut mieux que l'acharnement - very true, if you stick with it, the vowels will come eventually. The best books for learning, I think, are a series of books on the spoken and written language by Franklin Huffman, starting with "Modern Spoken Cambodian" and "Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader" and continuing to more advanced anthologies of interesting Khmer texts with vocabulary and notes.

[@andreahoehmann1939]

Do you know the Assimil book "Le Khmer" , Collection SANS PEINE?

[@ZadenZane]

I learned some Thai a few years ago, a language which also has a complicated spelling system, and I found it was easier to just learn the spellings as they are without worrying why they happen to be that way (for example sometimes a vowel is written with its own character, other times just implied. There are many silent letters. And there are multiple ways of writing the same sounds. It's like when you learn French there are accents on some words eg «contrôle» but not on others... Still very complicated though!

[@billrogers5219]

@@andreahoehmann1939 I don't know it, but I would have loved to learn Khmer "sans peine."

[@pulykh377]

If you can pronunciation of Khmer language you'll easy to pronounce to other languages.....

[@AnhNguyen-hn9vj]

I am not so sure. However, the north Vietnamese Ha Noi speakers they are have the same accents as the Khmer. I am not sure if they have been migrate from the Khmer kingdom in ancient time. It is just difficult to understand with their accents when they speaking Vietnamese language.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Love Cambodia from Turkiye

[@Nalinn9968]

សូមអរគុណអ្នកខ្លាំងណាស់ Thank you so much from 🇰🇭🙏❤️

[@asherouk7308]

Love Turkiye, from Australia (via Cambodia).

[@todo9229]

Welcome❤❤

[@thundarawe8851]

Welcome ❤

[@samolnorng7354]

Thanhs guys

[@jacobcraig46]

This is so convenient. About a week ago, I was doing research on the khmer writing system because I've always thought it looked interesting. To my surprise, you've uploaded this video. Keep up the great work!

[@tillybinkieking7258]

Isn't it strange? How the world turns.....

[@pacochawa2746]

The world turns for you. And it turns for everybody else too just a little bit differently. ✌

[@saroth369]

Thank you for your interested

[@jacobcraig46]

@Neicha Reich that's fascinating!

[@Honestandtruth]

The World 🌎 turns in killings and Sufferings and Wars and invasion To Be Exact.....👎🇻🇳🇷🇺🇨🇳👎

[@dubagentselekions8221]

I'm South African and Khmer is the first language in my polyglot journey...never been overseas though, hopefully next year I'll relocate

[@DonnellG]

Curious, how is it going so far...and why khmer

[@ninkongnav4780]

For additional information as a native speaker: Khmer doesn't have plural. You just need to tell the number of things or add the words like group, those, these...to the nouns or repeat the syllables. Example: Khmeng= kid/child ; Khmeng Khmeng = children.... So when you say Chkae Thom Thom, it means "big/large dogs (as in plural)" more than "large dog (as in emphasize the large) ". Most vocabularies in Thai and Lao are derived from Khmer and Khmerized Sanskrit, and Khmerized Pali. That's how Thai and Lao got their Sanskrit and Pali influence words. That's the reason Khmer speakers can understand at least a bit of Thai and Lao without learning them.

[@user-bj3sx8wx7b]

Yes, it's very similar. Whether it's Thai, Lao and Khmer, for example, if you can speak Lao. You will be able to speak Thai as well. because they have the same Derived Personally, I'm a true Thai, born in the central region until one day I visited Laos..I could understand 90% of the Lao language spoken by native people

[@ayushagrawal1321]

Pali is from Nepal , Sanskrit is from india, so we partially understand khame

[@catandme357]

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[@sojolly]

My daughter learned Kymer when she served in the peace corps in Siem Reap Cambodia. It sure was different hearing her interact with the locals when i visited her in 2018.

[@Honestandtruth]

Thank you for interested in Cambodia....if not involved in Political..... everything is okay 👍

[@Xiaoyue26]

Khmer* , not Kymer*

[@sojolly]

@@Xiaoyue26 my apologies, she learned it not i.

[@Xiaoyue26]

@@sojolly I know that, I just corrected your typo in your comment above.

[@Noo_Lhothong.w800]

​@@Xiaoyue26 เสียบราฐ ไม่ใช่เสียมเรียบ😊😊

[@NopKolap]

អរគុណច្រើន🙏!ចំពោះការចែករំលែកការរៀនភាសាខ្មែរ💛🇰🇭👍👏👏🏻 Thank you so much 🙏💛💐.

[@infinite5795]

Su Sdei and Namaste everyone, It is interesting that Khmer script shares many of the inherent order and sounds of the alphabet with the traditional Indian alphabets( we have currently about 22 official "native" ones which are born in India, leaving Latin and Perso-Arabic script, more scripts are to be made official in the coming years like Modi script for Marathi, Tigalari script for Tulu, Khudabadi script for Sindhi). So, it would be very comparatively easy for us Indians to learn it since it's a simple abugida, rather than even Thai, which has tonal markings compounding the script. The Khmer language sounds very full of consonant clusters and the script looks like royal Naga maidens, twisting in serpentine gaits. We Indians would love to see more historical dramas relating to our brotherly nations of Burma, Thailand, Laos, Indo-Malay and Khmer cultures. We all have beautiful histories, unique cultures and intangible heritage that we must cherish and be proud of. May peace prevail in all realms.

[@Alphaandronov]

As a Cambodian, thank u so much for making this video. The explanation is very well-organised and most of the information in this vid are pretty much accurate to what I’d studied throughout my academic years. ❤️❤️

[@saroth369]

I'm so proud as a Cambodian speaking in Khmer ❤thank you for your research and sharing 🎉

[@grapesofwrath1984]

Why?

[@user-br3hk7bf3z]

ในฐานะที่ผมเป็นคนไทย ผมภูมิใจมากที่คนเขมรครึ่งประเทศ เรียนรู้ที่จะพูดภาษาไทย เรียนรู้เกี่ยวกับไทยทุกๆอย่าง

[@Vathanak130]

​​ខ្ញុំមិនដែលនិយាយភាសាថៃទេ ហើយក៏មិនចាប់អារម្មណ៍ដែរ អ្នកដែលចេះថៃមួយចំនួនដោយសារពួកគេធ្លាប់ធ្វើការនៅថៃ។ បើធៀបអ្នករៀនភាសាថែនៅខ្មែរមានតិចជាងភាសា អង់គ្លេស បារាំង កូរ៉េ ចិន ។ហើយក៏ធ្លាប់ឃើញព័ត៌មានដែលសិស្សថៃចាប់អារម្មណ៍រៀនភាសាខ្មែរផងដែរ សម្រាប់ជនជាតិខ្មែរភាសាថៃមិនពិបាកនិយាយនោះទេ ព្រោះថាភាសាថៃបច្ចុប្បន្នបានកម្ចីពាក្យពីភាសាខ្មែរ។ គួរតែស្វែងយល់ពីខ្មែរឲច្បាស់សិន។

[@charlielowes8495]

As a Thai I'm also proud that half khmer population learn Thai and become servant in Thailand

[@saroth369]

@@grapesofwrath1984 why you asking like that?

[@vireaknorin]

That's a very interesting video, there are a few corrections over the words that I noticed: For 09:01 it should be ឆ្កែធំ , you may unintentionally added an ា in between. For: 09:13 It should be: ឆ្កែធំៗ We don't write the same adjective twice, but we use this "ៗ" instead. "ៗ" (but for an exception: there is any word etc. that we write នានា) 09:59, for the verb eat: First one: ស៊ី Second: ញុំា These correction doesn't have any bad intention, we're learning something new so mistaken are there to be made. Thank again for the interesting video about our language.

[@user-fu7uh5zd7q]

YES YES YES I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR A LONG TIIIIME Love from Ukraine to Cambodia 💜💜

[@ranyachau]

Thanks

[@ranyachau]

I am Cambodian... :D

[@user-fu7uh5zd7q]

@@ranyachau I have never been in Cambodia, but I have watched lots of programs and videos about it, I fell in love and I want to visit it and maybe stay there for many years ☸️☯️

[@ranyachau]

@@user-fu7uh5zd7q Hmmm Yes....​

[@Alexander_karurov]

​@@ranyachau same

[@kaymcleod3629]

You uploaded this video right when I was becoming fangirl-level obsessed with that Khmer rapper, Vannda. This is great!

[@JonahSMoonRiver]

so good to see Juli again !! Khmer is a cool langauge

[@ksksgvv7828]

ចាសូមស្វាគមន៍ yep Welcome ..

[@tulpa_trove]

Congratulations on 100K subscribers! Well-deserved. 🙂

[@ked8566]

Just a minor correction when you wrote the word large dog: it is written ឆ្កែធំ and not ឆ្កែាធំ both the symbols ែ (making roughly the sound ae) and ា (making the sound a) are dependent vowels and those two dependent vowels cannot be linked to the same consonant (in this case ឆ) at the same time. It’s a minor mistake and really doesn’t take away from the great video. As a Khmer person who likes to do a lot of research on the Khmer language I’m really happy with the video, awesome work.

[@IdropeTV]

I am currently living in Cambodia but before I was living in Riga and I discovered you are Latvian 🙂Of course I speak good russian and before also good latvian but I was there many years ago so I lost a lot of this last one. Thank you for this channel. I will watch all the videos because I love to study every language.

[@wasa6692]

ខ្ញុំពិតជារំភើបចំពោះបងស្រី ដែលបានគាំទ្រ និងបង្ហាញអក្សរសាស្រ្តខ្មែរទៅកាន់ពិភពលោក។ 🇰🇭🙏 I really appreciate of you for supporting and displaying my Khmer literature to the world.🙏🇰🇭

[@DonTornado]

Thank you for making this video! I had requested a video on the Khmer language. It doesn’t get enough attention. Recently, I have been very interested in Cambodian Rock music, especially music by Sinn Sisamouth, Ros Serey Sothea, and Pen Ran. They were singers in the 1960s and early 1970s. If anyone is unfamiliar with their music, I would definitely recommend listening to it. There is a documentary about Cambodian Rock music called Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten. There is also a graphic novel about Ros Serey Sothea’s life that is being made currently. It’s called The Golden Voice. Again, thank you for the video, and I definitely recommend checking out some Cambodian Rock music.

[@bongchan531]

Yes, very good classic oldies. I am Khmer American and reside in California. I will soon hope to create the first Khmer audio speaker brand, just didn't realize starting a speaker company is harder than it appears.

[@DonTornado]

@@bongchan531 Cool! I hope your company is successful.

[@vickocambodia8349]

Good advice. I would hardly describe Sinn Sisamouth as rock music though, much as I love his voice and songs.

[@DonTornado]

@@vickocambodia8349 I guess you’re right. Maybe just a bit of his music was rock, but I agree he had an amazing voice and so many good songs.

[@peterdegea]

As a Cambodian, I can say you made one of the most detailed explanation in Khmer language. I really am impressed and do acknowledge how detailed and accurate this is. Keep up the good work! 👍👍

[@gin8275]

Thank you for making this video about Khmer language. ❤ love from Cambodia 🇰🇭

[@naysimchim]

As a Cambodian born and speaking Khmer as my first language i'd like to say a big thank you and very much appreciated to you for choosing Khmer language" ភាសាខ្ខ្មែរ" to teach or study to learn , I'm so proud that ❤ Thank you so much 🙏❤

[@henglaihong1329]

Thank you for your researching 💕💕💕💕💕 អគុណសម្រាប់ការចែករំលែក🙏🙏

[@rykellim]

I will learn and speak Khmer... soon! 😍😍

[@CookieFonster]

I knew basically nothing about this language before watching this video. I find it interesting that a language can get so influenced by ones it's not related to, and it's good to learn that the root cause of a writing system seeming cumbersome is typically because the pronunciation heavily evolved and the spelling wasn't changed to accommodate. It's also surprising to hear an East/Southeast Asian language without tones that isn't Korean or Japanese.

[@nugidu2450]

Khmer is one of my favorite languages. I dont know why but I love it. The writing system is so unique and the sound of the language. I really wanna learn it.

[@gastonmartinez6316]

You have one of my favorite channels on youtube! Thank you for your effort! Paldies

[@sopheaummaonadelly]

Love from Cambodia 🇰🇭 yes we do speak Khmer and we also call ourselves Khmer in our own language 😊

[@sebastiaosalgado1979]

Hello!

[@StreetFoodTVCambodia]

Thanks for having Khmer language on your channel 🙏

[@utterdark]

Love the content. And your voice, also. It's soothing

[@camads6221]

In the name of Cambodian, I am thank you for sharing about Khmer.❤ I always support you. 😊

[@SirNova2o9]

Khmer is one of the old ancients language in mainland southeast asia.

[@chanasean1574]

I am very appreciate to your researching about Khmer language even I am growing up with it but I am difficult to explain it in English and you did a great job thanks❤ អរគុណ😊

[@rinnn3008]

I'm a Cambodian's people.I really proud when I see Khmer language and Khmer cultures in this video. I hope you can share more about Khmer cultures. 😊

[@zelina364]

Love khmer from your khasi brother

[@googleyoutubechannel8554]

Personally, after spending time in Cambodia, I think Khmer script has probably the most beautiful script in written form of any language in wide usage.. and perhaps paradoxically or fittingly, the spoken language sounds... well... bless it's heart.

[@benchan1726]

This is eyes opening for me! Thanks for your explanation .

[@lypol100]

Thank you for share 😍😘

[@giovannamanara776]

Extremeky interesting and well done, as usual.

[@sirdylan2401]

Interesting language! Nice video Julie.

[@sunbunhan4822]

អរគុណសម្រាប់ការចែករំលែក។ 😍😍 Many thanks for your sharing Khmer language.

[@videoreon]

Thank you, it was so interesting story!

[@jazielm.sanchez6810]

I wanted to learn Khmer because I like Cambodian music, especifically Psychedelic Rock. Those songs are so good I got nterested in Cambodian language.

[@SevenT55]

I can help you

[@pulykh377]

Thank you so much From Cambodia 🇰🇭

[@danielheng2730]

Thanks you so much for the video sharing about Cambodia 🇰🇭 ❤

[@maxcmyk]

I really liked the video, I have heard previously about the Khmer language but I did not know exactly what it was. I found the information presented on the video being very clear to understand, as well as easy to follow and now I’m better informed about this cool language! 😊

[@mattbunthorn-jv6gu]

Thanks very much for doing this...I love it.

[@sambenphanette2246]

Thank you JuLingo, you make channel Khmer language teaching and talking. we will see you again in Cambodia

[@tolamorn721]

Thank you for your sharing !

[@pablito8568]

Khmer language is vary cool🇰🇭❤

[@phinthangyeang5321]

I really appreciate your video about my country Cambodia and it ancient Angkor Wat🙏🏼

[@kimshare]

Really good 😊

[@cjsopheaktra2422]

I just want to correct some part. ឆ្កែធំ=big dog, whereas "ឆ្កែធំធំ"means big dogs. However, we don't write "ឆ្កែធំធំ​" but we write "ឆ្កែធំៗ". Thai & Khmer language have 30%of similar vocabulary because there are hundreds of Khmer loaned words in Thai, and there are almost a hundred of Thai loaned words in Khmer language as well.

[@SCHKhmerfood]

Yes, that right.

[@PhkaKolab]

Wow….thank you for your VDO taking about Khmer language ❤

[@vanthanmao3334]

Yes thank you so much, who explain about Khmer Language.

[@chriskeller1627]

Khmer language indeed does not have tones, but it has many different vowel sounds that make it even more difficult to learn... ភាសាខ្មែរ 🇰🇭

[@ikhebdieishetnietgoeddathe4057]

Khmer underwent a same process with caused a tone split in Thao, Lao and Vietnamese. But in Khmer it caused a vowel split, explaining the a and o series as opposed to high/middle and low class letters in Thai

[@pablito8568]

Língua cambojana, idioma cambojano 🇰🇭❤

[@rothapinputh9228]

thank you for clearly description

[@sopheaummaonadelly]

Good job, your presentation is perfect 👌

[@pisethhuy7727]

Thanks for your video showing our culture!

[@koeurnchetra4418]

Thanks for sharing ❤

[@samnangkim5750]

Thank you so much for sharing my country ❤❤

[@reaksmeysim7321]

Love your video from Cambodia.

[@ThydaCookingTV]

Cambodian people in is approximately 17 millions not 14 ❤. In Vietnam there are at least 5 million people live there who still speak Khmer language

[@tiffanyruby1589]

first time encountered your channel , i just subscribed , Liked , and comment and shared this video . thank you so much for giving such as amazing and detail informative about my country and my language . Wish you the best of luck JuLingo :))))))

[@jack200955]

Great video 📸

[@ethratha1080]

amazing video, thank you for teaching Khmer

[@parislim853]

Love your video ❤

[@user-vr5sy9hv8w]

Hi. I am learning Khmer at the moment. I fnd it a fascinating language. I have been to Cambodia several times and love the warmth of the Khmer people. I would love to get a good grasp of the language.

[@yeatliv7885]

Thanks for sharing

[@SEIHA2000]

Thanks you so much from Cambodia ❤❤

[@SLBLADE]

You are so good at these videos thank you ❤️

[@thachbuntha397]

Thank very much

[@sotheakhetkh]

love your videos

[@lancesay]

amazing, i love learning and getting a different perspective of the same thing... all cooks explain their ways of cooking differently.

[@sutsokunthealifetv]

Absolutely fantastic, thanks for sharing 🥰

[@ennyxpreset]

Wow Thank you for sharing.

[@faziah]

❤thank you Julie for your beautiful VIDEO ❤

[@theshadowofdharma]

Thank you for sharing!!!!

[@nitlveboysmors1656]

Thank you so much teacher 🙇💗🥰

[@ienjoypeter9749]

ពិតជាល្អខ្លាំងណាស់ អ្នកបានបង្រៀនភាសាខ្មែរ

[@kingplayer321]

Thank for sharing

[@PURACOOKING]

so nice You really know the history of Cambodia very well❤❤

[@dimangchum4323]

Thank you for this lovely and informative video! I am very proud to be a Khmer.

[@soknoun3244]

I really appreciate with you for loving my Khmer language love you so much from Cambodia 🇰🇭🇰🇭

[@chengpheavy5932]

Thank you for sharing . I'm cambodian ♥️♥️

[@Sopheaksaing]

Thanks sister for sharing about my Country, 💞💞💞

[@JamaicaRouge]

Excellent job!! Very good! Keep up the great work! Love- fellow supporter whom happens to be full blooded 100% khmai

[@Pejr]

Thank❤

[@visal__00__53]

Thanks you ❤️អរគុណ​🙏

[@blehourff9054]

Thank you so much ❤🙏🙏🙏

[@Bongleang963]

Thanks for your video about Cambodia 🇰🇭 ❤

[@Whitejasmine08]

Love this video

[@kormchantho9629]

អរគុណ❤️ Thank you ❤️

[@makingon5566]

Good details about Khmer

[@sopheapp9189]

Thank you for introduce our languages to the world 🇰🇭🇰🇭❤❤

[@chheapchhom5570]

Thanks you so much from Cambodia

[@user-fe6cn9xk1e]

សួរស្ដីមិត្តសម្លាញ់ អគុណ ពន្យល់បានក្បះក្បាយណាស់❤❤❤

[@sophanasorn6218]

I'm Cambodian. Great tutorial. I love that 💞