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:
| A¨Y | passion |
| i¨Ä | suck (a breast) |
| W¨Y | delta |
| T¨Ä | lead, guide |
| E¨Ä | inarticulately |
| E¨ A | turn around |
| F¨ÄE | trim, rough-hew |
| i¨F | be able |
| F¨Ä | wait |
| W¨Ä | hold in one's teeth |
| i¨ÄE | roast on a spit |
| W¨ ÄE | bar the way |
| Y¨ T | have |
(a) Determine the correct correspondences.
(b) Write in the Roman script:
| A¨Ä | spoke (in a wheel) |
| A¨A | crow |
| E¨ÄE | bright red |
| F¨Y | Cham |
| T¨Y | name |
| Y ¨ Ä | robust |
⚠ 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