What language is spoken in Cambodia?

Cambodian (also known as Khmer) and English are the official languages.

Cambodia is about150,000. There are more than 20 ethnic groups, of which Khmer is the main ethnic group, accounting for 80% of the total population, and there are also ethnic minorities such as Zhan, Punong, Lao, Thai and Sting. There are about 1 10,000 overseas Chinese.

1, Cambodian

Formerly known as Khmer, it belongs to the South Asian language family, with Phnom Penh accent as the standard. Modern Cambodian has also absorbed many foreign words, including Sanskrit, Pali, French, Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese.

At present, some domestic universities, such as Beijing Foreign Studies University, Guangxi University for Nationalities, Yunnan University for Nationalities and Yunnan Normal University, have set up Cambodian majors. /kloc-In the middle and late 20th century, France became a protectorate of Cambodia, and French became the official language.

2. Language features

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, polyphony and independent vowels.

The use of Cambodian is strictly graded, which varies from person to person, and the royal language occupies a certain proportion in Cambodian.

Extended data:

Cambodians used to be called Khmer.

The historical development of Khmer language can be roughly divided into three periods: 1, Khmer ancestor language and ancient Khmer language period:1before the 4th century; 2. Khmer language period in the Middle Ages:14-19th century; 3. Modern Khmer language period:1after the 9th century.

The Khmer ancestral language has a long history, and the language used by the residents living in Cambodia today in the early AD is related to the current Khmer language.

During the ancient Khmer language period, Cambodia, deeply influenced by Indian culture, was informally divided into the elite who mastered Sanskrit and the ordinary people who only knew Khmer. The earliest Khmer inscription found in Cambodia was engraved on 6 1 1, while the Sanskrit inscription was engraved two years later.

Sanskrit inscriptions praise gods, kings, ruling classes or monks in the form of poems; Khmer inscriptions, in the form of prose, record the process of temple construction, stipulate the duties of slaves, formulate a taxation system, and curse those who attempt to destroy temples. /kloc-In the 3rd century, most people in Cambodia converted to Buddhism at the throne, and the status of Pali gradually improved.

In the late Khmer Kingdom, a large number of scholars and classics of Indian culture gradually moved from Angkor to big cities in Thailand. From then to the Ang Chan I period, the Cambodian language changed permanently, and the status of Khmer language was greatly improved.

/kloc-In the middle and late 20th century, Cambodia became a protectorate of France, and French became the official language. Khmer is excluded and is not taught in schools. After Cambodia's independence, Khmer became the official language again and was written into the Constitution.

During this period, in order to solve the problem that Khmer lacked modern political, economic and scientific vocabulary, King Zuna and Cambodian Buddhist College borrowed a lot of Pali vocabulary, created modern Khmer vocabulary and compiled a Khmer Dictionary, which effectively protected Khmer and Khmer culture and prevented them from being replaced by French.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Cambodia

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Cambodian