Each character represents a consonant sound together with an inherent vowel, either â or ô in many cases, in the absence of another vowel mark, the inherent vowel is to be pronounced after the consonant. Originally there were 35 consonant characters, but modern Khmer uses only 33. Consonant clusters within a word are "stacked", with the second (and occasionally third) consonant being written in reduced form under the main consonant. Words within the same sentence or phrase are generally run together with no spaces between them. It is also used to write Pali in the Buddhist liturgy of Cambodia and Thailand. The Khmer script ( Khmer: អក្សរខ្មែរ, Âksâr Khmêr, pronounced ) is an abugida (alphasyllabary) script used to write the Khmer language, the official language of Cambodia. BCEĪdlam (slight influence from Arabic) 1989 CE Caucasian Albanian (origin uncertain) c.Cherokee (syllabary letter forms only) c.
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