Wiktionary:Khmer romanization

Khmer romanization
The is written with the, an Indic-based alphasyllabary. There are many methods to romanise the Khmer script; the most common schemes are the (UNGEGN) scheme, the Geographic Department scheme which is based on the UNGEGN scheme, the BGN/PCGN scheme and the ALA-LC scheme. All of these schemes use a mix of transcription and transliteration principles (with different proportions of mixing), and as a consequence it is appreciably difficult to algorithmically generate these romanisations in an accurate manner. Monolingual Khmer dictionaries, such as the renowned Dictionary, traditionally make use of ‘respellings’ to indicate irregularities in pronunciations in a fashion similar to Thai dictionaries, though the use of respellings is not as consistent. The following will attempt to introduce the intricacies of the Khmer script and the romanisations.

‘Syllabic configurations’

 * a-series = 1st class; o-series = 2nd class.
 * Note that the combination of diacritics may not be displayed as desired; please consult the column of examples.

Independent vowels

 * Note that words spelt with independent vowels should always have respellings in entries, for example should be respelt as អ៊ូកា.
 * Also note that the independent vowel is different from the consonant sign . On Wiktionary, only the latter should be used in entries.