Cambodian Translation

World Translation Center provides professional Cambodian translation services for English to Cambodian and Cambodian to English. We can also translate Cambodian to and from over 130 other languages, including all the principal languages of Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East and a number of African languages, at affordable rates.

Our Cambodian professionals have the ability to provide translation for any project you might have, including marketing materials, technical, financial, legal and medical documents, websites and software. Our experienced project managers will match your project with a translator team appropriate for the field of expertise required. Each individual linguist works solely in his or her own mother tongue and within his or her field of expertise guaranteeing not only quality translation, but proper localization at the same time. After each document is translated, it will be edited and proofread by an additional professional translator to ensure highest possible quality.

We also provide transcription, video recording and subtitling services. Should you need to have an existing video dubbed, a commercial narrated or a telephone system recorded, our native Cambodian speakers are available to furnish expert voiceover services.

We pride ourselves in delivering high quality cost-effective services, whether your project is small or large, simple or highly complex.

Old Cambodian temple

Elephant statue on Cambodian temple

Khmer Information

Khmer or Cambodian, a member of the Mon-Khmer group of Austro-Asiatic languages, is spoken by a significant number of people in Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, China, France and the USA. Khmer shares many features and much vocabulary with Thai as a result of centuries of two-way borrowing.

Cambodian Language Facts

The Khmer alphabet descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India by way of the Pallava script, which was used in southern India and South East Asia during the 5th and 6th Centuries AD. The oldest dated inscription in Khmer, found at Angkor Borei in Takev Province south of Phnom Penh, dates from 611 AD.

The Khmer alphabet closely resembles the Thai and Lao alphabets, which were developed from it.

Writing Cambodian

Cambodian is a syllabic alphabet in which each consonant has two forms, one with an inherent /a/ (first series) and one with an inherent /o/ (second series)

Vowels are indicated using either separate letters or diacritics, which written above, below, in front of, after or around consonants. The pronunciation of the vowels depends on whether a consonant they are attached to is of the first or second series.

All consonants have a subscript form which is used to write the second consonant of a cluster.

In a Khmer text there are no spaces between words, instead spaces indicate the end of a clause or sentence.

In spite of efforts to standardize written Khmer, many words have more than one accepted spelling.

As an example of Cambodian font, here are the numerals:

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