| Khmer Khe | |
| States: | Cambodia |
| Region: | Stung Treng Province |
| Speakers: | ? |
| Date: | 2013 |
| Familycolor: | Austroasiatic |
| Fam2: | Khmer |
| Isoexception: | dialect |
| Glotto: | none |
Khmer Khe (or Hakka Khmer; Central Khmer: ខ្មែរខិ) is a Khmeric language spoken in Stung Treng Province, Cambodia. It has an estimated lexical similarity of between 95-96% with Central Khmer.
Alternate names for Khmer Khe include Khmer Khes and Khmer Kha-ak (Khmer Khak) (Herington & Ryan 2013:5).
Khmer Khe is spoken in the following villages of Siem Pang District, Stung Treng Province, Cambodia (Herington & Ryan 2013:8).
Bahnaric languages are spoken to the east of the Khmer Khe area, and Kuy, a Katuic language, is spoken to the west.
| Glottal | ||||||
| Plosive | pronounced as /p (pʰ)/ | pronounced as /t (tʰ)/ | pronounced as /c (cʰ)/ | pronounced as /k (kʰ)/ | pronounced as /ʔ/ | |
| Voiced plosive/Implosive | pronounced as /ɓ ~ b/ | pronounced as /ɗ ~ d/ | pronounced as /ɟ/ | |||
| Nasal | pronounced as /m/ | pronounced as /n/ | pronounced as /ɲ/ | pronounced as /ŋ/ | ||
| Liquid | pronounced as /r/ pronounced as /l/ | |||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /f (fʰ)/ | pronounced as /s/ | pronounced as /h/ | |||
| Approximant | pronounced as /w/ | pronounced as /j/ |
| Front | Central | Back | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | ||
| Close | pronounced as /i/ | pronounced as /iː/ | pronounced as /ɨ/ | pronounced as /ɨː/ | pronounced as /u/ | pronounced as /uː/ | |
| Close-mid | pronounced as /e/ | pronounced as /eː/ | pronounced as /ə/ | pronounced as /əː/ | pronounced as /o/ | pronounced as /oː/ | |
| Open-mid | pronounced as /ɛ/ | pronounced as /ɛː/ | pronounced as /ɔ/ | pronounced as /ɔː/ | |||
| Open | pronounced as /a/ | pronounced as /aː/ | |||||