September 2002
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The Khmer script is used to write the Khmer, or Cambodian, language of Cambodia. This script goes back to about the sixth century.[13] Khmer shares the same general design as the other Indic scripts. There are 35 consonants and 17 independent vowels (Figure 9.15).
[13] My sources for this section are Eric Schiller, “Khmer Writing,” in The World's Writing Systems, pp. 467–473, and Nakanishi, pp. 74–75.

The Khmer consonants have an inherent vowel, but they don't all have the same inherent vowel. There are 13 “first series” consonants, which carry an inherent a:
The rest of the consonants belong to the ...
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