Western Khmer dialect
Western Khmer, also known as Cardamom Khmer or Chanthaburi Khmer, is the dialect of the Khmer language spoken by the Khmer people native to the Cardamom Mountains on both sides of the border between western Cambodia (Pailin Province) and eastern CentralThailand (Chanthaburi Province). Developing in an historically isolated region, Western Khmer is the only dialect of modern Khmer to conserve the Middle Khmerphonation contrast of breathy voice versus modal voice that has been all but lost in the other dialects.[1][2]
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p (pʰ) | t (tʰ) | c (cʰ) | k (kʰ) | ʔ |
| Voiced plosive | b | d | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
| Liquid | rl | ||||
| Fricative | (f) | s | h | ||
| Approximant | w | j |
(f) in loan words
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| Close | ||||||
| Close-mid | e | eː | ə | o | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɛː | ||||
| Open | a | aː | ɒ | ɒː | ||
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| Close | i̤ | i̤ː | ɨ̤ | ɨ̤ː | ṳ | ṳː |
| Close-mid | e̤ː | ə̤ː | o̤ | o̤ː | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ̤ː | ɔ̤ː | ||||
| Open | a̤ | |||||
References
- 123Wayland & Jongman. Chanthaburi Vowels: Phonetic and Phonemic Analyses, Mon-Khmer Studies 31:65-82
- ↑Acoustic correlates of breathy and clear vowels: the case of KhmerArchived 2012-06-21 at the Wayback Machine. Journal of Phonetics 31 (2003). pp 181-201
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