Problem:IOL/2006/i3/en

IOL 2006 Problem #3 Khmer
Here are several Khmer words written in a special variety of the traditional Khmer alphabet (the so-called 'Round Script'), their English translations, as well as Roman transcriptions of these words in arbitrary order:

poьm, a:c, noьm, ŋoьm, cam, peьŋ, aŋ, caŋ, am, piъm, ŋiъk, ka:m, miъn

(a) Determine the correct correspondences.

(b) Write in the Roman script:

⚠ a, eь, oь are short vowels, a:, iъ are long vowels, ŋ, c are consonants; Chan is an ethnic group in Southeast Asia. Khmer is the official language of the Kingdom of Cambodia. It is spoken by approx. 9 mln people.

—Sergey Dmitrenko