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VII. Diacritic (Huffman, 1970)

1. The Bantaq បន្តក់ ( ់ )

Diacritic Bantaq occurs on the top of the final consonant of a syllable and it is used to shorten the vowel of that syllable. All Khmer consonant there is an inherent vowel. The inherent vowel for first series consonant is /AA/ and second consonant is /OO/.

1. In a syllable with invisible vowe, bantaq signalls the short inherent vowel. Froexample, vowel /AA/ change to /A/ after afirst series consoant, and /OO/ change to /u/ or /u(e/ after the second series consonant.
2. The vowel ( ា ) /aa/ followed by the Bantaq ( ់) will pronounced shorter /a/ after the first series consoant and after the second series consonant, vowel ( -ា ) /aa/ is pronounced /o(e/ or /e(e/.

2. Treysap ត្រីស័ព្ទ ( ៊ )​ ឬ សក់ក