Thursday, December 19, 2013

KhmerText Opensource Project

Corpus is very important for the development of the language tools, I found we have an existing opensource hosted project about KhmerText which is mostly provide free/opensource data, the collection of Khmer Corpus.

About the project
Open data for a Khmer language corpus and lexicographic data that can be used for the development of free language tools for Khmer language, such as automatic translators, dictionaries, linguistic analysis tools, etc.

Website:
http://khmertext.sourceforge.net/

Download:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/khmertext/files/

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Khmer Language Information

Ref: Ethnologue Map

A language of Cambodia


Alternate Names
  • Cambodian, Khmer
Population
  • 12,900,000 in Cambodia (2008 census). Population total all countries: 14,224,500.
Location
  • Widespread. Also in Canada, China, France, Laos, United States, Viet Nam.
Language Maps
Language Status
  • 1 (National). Statutory national language (1993, Constitution, Article 5).
Dialects
  • Battambang Khmer, Cardamom Khmer, Khmer Kandal (Central), Khmer Keh (Stung Treng), Khmer Krom (Southern). Distinct from Northern Khmer [kxm] of Thailand.
Typology: SVO
Language Use
  • 1,000,000 L2 speakers.
Language Development
  • 35% of the population over 15 cannot read or write Khmer. Radio programs. Grammar. Bible: 1954–1998.
Writing: Khmer script.

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Ref: Ethnologue

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

KhmerOS Download @ SourceForge

All download related to KhmerOS project is found on SourceForge.

Here is the link of Khmer project on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/khmer/files/

And here is the KhmerOS.info project.