Type Khmer by sound. Write the word the way it sounds in Latin letters and it becomes Khmer as you type — no need to learn key positions.
suastei | សួស្តី | hello |
arkun | អរគុណ | thank you |
khnhom | ខ្ញុំ | I / me |
baadd | បាទ | yes (m.) |
ka.mpujaa | កម្ពុជា | Cambodia |
m*aong | ម៉ោង | hour |
Consonants stack automatically. Two consonants typed with no vowel
between them join with coeng: khnhom gives ខ្ញុំ.
Type . to break a cluster: ka.mpujaa gives
កម្ពុជា.
Capitals matter. d is ដ but
D is ឌ; n is
ន but N is ណ. On a
phone, hold the key to reach the capital.
a is the built-in vowel. It writes nothing on its own — it
just ends the consonant, so ka is ក.
k | ក | kh | ខ | g | គ | gh | ឃ |
ng | ង | ch | ច | chh | ឆ | j | ជ |
jh | ឈ | ny | ញ | nh | ញ | d | ដ |
TH | ឋ | D | ឌ | DH | ឍ | N | ណ |
t | ត | th | ថ | dd | ទ | dh | ធ |
n | ន | b | ប | ph | ផ | p | ព |
bh | ភ | m | ម | y | យ | r | រ |
l | ល | v | វ | w | វ | s | ស |
h | ហ | L | ឡ | q | អ |
aa | ា | i | ិ | ii | ី | ei | ី |
eu | ឹ | euu | ឺ | u | ុ | uu | ូ |
ou | ូ | ua | ួ | oe | ើ | aeu | ើ |
oea | ឿ | ie | ៀ | e | េ | ae | ែ |
eae | ែ | ai | ៃ | ey | ៃ | ao | ោ |
o | ោ | oa | ោ | au | ៅ | ov | ៅ |
am | ាំ | aM | ាំ | um | ុំ | om | ុំ |
ah | ះ | eah | េះ | oh | ោះ | uh | ុះ |
ih | ិះ |
'e | ឯ | 'ai | ឰ | 'o | ឱ | 'au | ឳ |
'ri | ឫ | 'rii | ឬ | 'li | ឭ | 'lii | ឮ |
'q | ឥ | 'qi | ឦ | 'qu | ឧ | 'quu | ឩ |
M | ំ | H | ះ | ' | ់ | ^ | ័ |
~ | ៍ | * | ៉ | ` | ៊ | // | ។ |
/// | ៕ | ** | ៗ | << | « | >> | » |
:: | ៖ |
On Android and iPhone, install the Khmer Phonetic Dictionary package as well to get a suggestion bar above the keyboard, drawn from a 20,000 word frequency list.
Full documentation and the web version: merlynial.github.io/khmer-phonetic-keyboard