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Khmer alphabet and characters
Khmer alphabet
Consonants: 33
Independent vowels: 15
Dependent vowels: 20
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Khmer alphabet characters:
Khmer grammar rules
Khmer is primarily an analytic, isolating language. There are no inflections, conjugations or case endings.
Nouns
Number is expressed by using words like ‘’some’’ or ‘’all’’.
There is no grammatical gender. It can be expressed by adding words like ‘’male’’ or ‘’female’’.
Verbs
Khmer formatting rules
Date formats
| First day of the week | Monday |
| Working days | Monday to Friday |
| Short date format | dd-MM-yyyy |
| e.g. ១៧-០៣-២០១១ | |
| Long date format | dd mmmm yyyy |
| e.g. ១៧ មីនា ២០១១ |
Numbers and currency
Solutions for Khmer
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