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On Friday I’m going to do a short presentation about Cambodia at Charlotte’s preschool and I’ve been brushing up on my Khmer alphabet facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you know that the Khmer language has the largest alphabet* in the world? 74 letters! That’s according to the Guinness Book of World Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Japanese and Chinese are pictographs rather than alphabets. Most of Tamil isn’t alphabetic but syllabic.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n \u1780\n <\/td>\n \u1781\n <\/td>\n \u1782\n <\/td>\n \u1783\n <\/td>\n \u1784\n <\/td>\n \u1785\n <\/td>\n \u1786\n <\/td> \u178e \u00a0 <\/td><\/tr>
\n \u1790\n <\/td>\n \u1791\n <\/td>\n \u1792\n <\/td>\n \u1793\n <\/td>\n \u1794\n <\/td>\n \u1795\n <\/td>\n \u1796\n <\/td> \u00a0 \u179e <\/td><\/tr>
\n \u17a0\n <\/td>\n \u17a1\n <\/td>\n \u17a2\n <\/td>\n \u17a3\n <\/td>\n \u17a4\n <\/td>\n \u17a5\n <\/td>\n \u17a6\n <\/td> \u00a0 \u17ae <\/td><\/tr>
\n \u17b0\n <\/td>\n \u17b1\n <\/td>\n \u17b2\n <\/td>\n \u17b3\n <\/td> \u00a0 \u17be <\/td> \u17e9 <\/td>\n \u17b6\n <\/td> \u00a0 \u17ce <\/td><\/tr>
\n \u17c0\n <\/td>\n \u17c1\n <\/td>\n \u17c2\n <\/td>\n \u17c3\n <\/td>\n \u17c4\n <\/td>\n \u17c5\n <\/td>\n \u17c6\n <\/td> \u00a0 \u17e8 <\/td><\/tr>
\n \u17d0\n <\/td>\n \u17d1\n <\/td>\n  \u17d2 \n <\/td>\n \u17d3\n <\/td>\n \u17d4\n <\/td>\n \u17d5\n <\/td>\n \u17d6\n <\/td> \u00a0 \u17e7 <\/td><\/tr>
\n \u17e0\n <\/td>\n \u17e1\n <\/td>\n \u17e2\n <\/td>\n \u17e3\n <\/td>\n \u17e4\n <\/td>\n \u17e5\n <\/td>\n \u17e6\n <\/td> \u00a0 \u17dd <\/td><\/tr>
\n \u1787\n <\/td>\n \u1788\n <\/td>\n \u1789\n <\/td>\n \u178a\n <\/td>\n \u178b\n <\/td>\n \u178c\n <\/td>\n \u178d\n <\/td> \u17dc <\/td><\/tr>
\n \u1797\n <\/td>\n \u1798\n <\/td>\n \u1799\n <\/td>\n \u179a\n <\/td>\n \u179b\n <\/td>\n \u179c\n <\/td>\n \u179d\n <\/td> \u17db <\/td><\/tr>
\n \u17a7\n <\/td>\n \u17a8\n <\/td>\n \u17a9\n <\/td>\n \u17aa\n <\/td>\n \u17ab\n <\/td>\n \u17ac\n <\/td>\n \u17ad\n <\/td> \u17da <\/td><\/tr>
\n \u17b7\n <\/td>\n \u17b8\n <\/td>\n \u17b9\n <\/td>\n \u17ba\n <\/td>\n \u17bb\n <\/td>\n \u17bc\n <\/td>\n \u17bd\n <\/td> \u17d9 <\/td><\/tr>
\n \u17c7\n <\/td>\n \u17c8\n <\/td>\n \u17c9\n <\/td>\n \u17ca\n <\/td>\n \u17cb\n <\/td>\n \u17cc\n <\/td>\n \u17cd\n <\/td> \u17d8 <\/td><\/tr>
\n \u17d7\n <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

The Khmer alphabet is made up of consonants, independent vowels, and dependent vowels! Letters sometimes transform based on their placement beside other letters! On top of all of that there are also 12 diacritics! <\/p>\n\n\n\n