What is the official language of Cambodia?

The official language of Cambodia is Cambodian, or Khmer. However, in the middle and late19th century, Cambodia became a protectorate of France, and French became the official language. 1953 After Cambodia declared its independence, Khmer gradually resumed its official status and was written into the Constitution.

During this period, in order to protect Khmer language and Khmer culture from being replaced by French, and to solve the problem that Khmer language lacks modern political, economic and scientific vocabulary, King Zuna and the Cambodian Buddhist College borrowed a large number of words from Pali, created modern Khmer vocabulary and compiled the Khmer Dictionary.

The pinyin method of Cambodian consists of consonants and vowels. Consonants are divided into high consonants, low consonants, overlapping consonants and voiced consonants, and vowels are divided into high vowels, low vowels, compound vowels and independent vowels. In use, the level is strict and varies from person to person, and the royal language occupies a certain proportion in Cambodian.

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Cambodian belongs to South Asian language family, which was first put forward by German William Schmidt in 1907. It used to be called "Mon-Khmer Language Family", and its representative languages are Vietnamese, Khmer, Mongolian, Mongolian and Nicobar.

By the end of 20 17, 168 languages were divided into South Asian languages, distributed in the southern borders of India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China, with about 65,438+170,000 native speakers. exist

Among these languages, only Vietnamese, Khmer and Mongolian have a long history, and only Vietnamese and Khmer are the official languages of Vietnam and Cambodia respectively.

Kasai is the official language of Megara yabang, India, while Hoh and Mundali are the official languages of Debon, Calkin, India. The main feature of South Asian language family is that the consonant system is comprehensive, and there are obvious differences among unvoiced, voiced and voiced sounds.

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