Borrowing Khmer loanwords in Thai

Abstract

This academic paper studies the borrowing of Khmer loanwords in the Thai language by studying the background and characteristics of Khmer loanwords have found that Khmer is a long-term relationship between trade, communication and Khmer languages, Suvarnabhumi Land, several hundred years before Sukhothai kingdom, from the presence of people contiguous Khmer language mixed with Thai language since ancient times, Khmer language with the spoken language of the southern Isan people of Thailand, as well as the people of the Thai-Cambodian regions. The two countries have long had a very common culture, even though their peoples' lifestyles and foreign languages ​​were largely borrowed from Pali Sanskrit. Khmer Character 1) Khmer language is a word. Most words have only 1 to 2 syllables, use the Khmer script, have 33 consonants like Pali, namely, paragraph, kak, b, khong, paragraph, jay, paragraph, dathathat, paragraph, tatthotha. Khmer language has no tone, but influences some borrowings for Khmer with tonal form (+) used 3) Khmer language has 18 sunken vowels. 18 floating vowels are divided into 10 single vowels, 10 long single vowels, 9 short single vowels, 2 diphthongs, 3 short vowels 4) Khmer language has many cluster consonants. There are 2 cluster consonants - 85 units and 3 clusters, 3 units.