Help:IPA/Khmer
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Khmer language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see {{IPA-km}} and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
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Notes
- ^ The stops /p, t, c, k/ have no audible release when occurring as syllable finals, as in Cantonese
- ^ a b Khmer consonants belong to two classes that dictate the value of dependent vowels.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Can be changed to 1st series by stacking a ហ above the subscript form. See here for further details.
- ^ a b c d e never occurs at the end of words
- ^ ត is used by orthographic convention to represent ɗ in disyllabic words whose underlying form is spelled with ត or ថ as opposed to derivatives of bases spelled with ដ, which keep the original ដ for ɗ.
- ^ in certain words of Pali or Sanskrit origin
- ^ final រ is silent (not transcribed) in central dialects of Cambodia and Vietnam, represents a trill in Northern Khmer dialects of Thailand
- ^ a b before palatals