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2. Treysap ត្រីស័ព្ទ ( ៊ )​ ឬ សក់ក

Treysap is used to convert four of the first series consonants ស ហ ប and អ which have no second series counterpart to the second series consonant ស៊ ហ៊ ប៊ and អ៊ .

3. Mousekatoan មូសិកទន្ត ( ៉ )ឬ សម្លាប់ពីរ

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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

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VI. Independent Vowel
Independent vowels are known as /sraq phn) tue/ (complete vowel) becasue they incorporate both an initial consonant and a vowel. In the table below, independent vowel from 1 to 5 and 10 to 11 include an initial /q-/ and are listed in the official dictionary along with other words that are spelled with an initial អ and the equivalent vowel. Independent vowel 6 and 7 include an initial /r/ and are listed in the official dictionary along with an initial រ and the equivalent vowel. Independent vowel 8 and 9 includes an initial /l/ and are listed in the official dictionary along with an initial consonant . (Huffman, 1970)

Independent Vowels	Name of Independent Vowels	Value of Independent Vowels
ឥ	sraq e	qe
ឦ	sraq ey	qey
ឧ	sraq o	qo
ឳ	sraq ao	qao
ឧ	sraq ew	qew
ឫ	sraq rhk	rhk
ឬ	sraq rhh	rhh
ឭ	sraq lhk	lhk
ឮ	sraq lhh	lhh
ឯ	sraq ae	qae
ឰ	sraq ay	qay

VII. Diacritic

1. The Bantaq បន្តក់ ( ់ )