Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader with Drills and Glossary

Franklin E. Huffman, Chhom-Rak Thong Lambert, Im Proum

Adam Wood, 1970 - Foreign Language Study - 365 pages

This volume consists of four parts: (1) The Cambodian Writing System, a formal description of the relationship between the writing system and the phonology of the language; (2) Programmed Reading Exercises, a series of highly structured reading drills to train the student to read all regular Cambodian word shapes; (3) Beginning Cambodian Reader, fifty reading selections, graded in length and difficulty, ranging from short, simple narratives to essays on various aspects of Cambodian culture; and (4) Cambodian-English Glossary, containing some 2,000 words.

Contents

• Introduction: 3
• The Consonant Symbols JII4liIlIlPPIII7i ooocqooooqqoaoamcnoaee: 13
• The Vowel Symbols OOLOLlI 9l9 CDO1IP: 24
• Subscript Consonant Symbols DOC O 300IC OO0OOOO l1JlO50JO3UQI: 35
• 12: 41
• II U5IOJCO: 43
• The museqkatoan L: 47
• B Punctuation: 54
• Pagination: 63
• Unwritten Sounds A Unwritten Vowels 1 The Long Inherent Vowel idD0: 64
• B Unwritten Consonants 1 Internal Doubling 2 Unwritten q: 69
• Irregular Spellings uue instead of doso ? t aue instead of aeeoe Exceptions to the Governance Rule: 71
• Silent Final Short Vowel Symbols aeas instead of eiee ay instead of: 72
• a instead of: 73
• Writing A Handwriting 1 Symbol Composition: 74
• The Symbol 7 or: 76
• F4979? Styles of Script: 77
• Samples of Handwriting Styles: 79
• Typewritten Style: 80
• Samples of Printed Styles: 81
• Programmed Reading Exercises: 85
• Introduction: 87
• Consonants Exercises 151: 100
• Independent Vowel Symbols Exercises 123139: 116
• Some Disyllables Exercises 140143: 120
• Subscript Consonant Symbols Exercises 144151 121: 121
• Initial Clusters Exercises 152160: 124
• Medial Clusters Exercises 167178: 130
• Written Final Clusters Exercises 179184: 133
• Unwritten Vowels Exercises 185193: 135
• Unwritten Consonants Exercises 194196: 138
• Some Irregular Spellings Exercises 197203: 139
• Some Additional Diacritics Exercises 204216: 141
• Vowel Reduction in Presyllables Exercises 217219: 144
• Numerals Exercises 220226: 145
• 40: 151
• mmn cm: 174
• sures: 184
• ?5: 190
• n J2jm?si2: 198
• 50Z 9vnn 9: 205
• Reading Selections Continued: 206
• firm m: 218
• rz ?s rF: 224
• w9mvm mi3?: 234
• H77 7Ui 7l7 7: 242
• yflrm 2: 256
• CambodianEnglish Glossary: 270
• 272: 276

Bibliographic information

• Title: Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader with Drills and Glossary; Southeaset Asia program; Volume 13 of Yale Language Series; Yale linguistic series
• Authors: Franklin E. Huffman, Chhom-Rak Thong Lambert, Im Proum
• Editors: Chhom-Rak Thong Lambert, Im Proum
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Adam Wood, 1970
• ISBN: 0300013140, 9780300013146
• Length: 365 pages
• Subjects: Foreign Language Study / Southeast Asian Languages