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Locale Km Kh

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Use when working with the Khmer (Cambodia) locale (`km-KH`) — its endonym ខ្មែរ (កម្ពុជា), Khmer script, left-to-right (LTR) direction, or spoken-population data. Reference data and translation guidance (register, grammar, idiom, typography) for this specific locale; see [[locale]] for general i18n/l10n concepts (BCP 47, plural rules, RTL) that apply across all locales.

Reference data for the Khmer (Cambodia) locale — endonym ខ្មែរ (កម្ពុជា), written in the Khmer script, left-to-right (LTR).

Identifiers

  • BCP 47 tag: km-KH
  • ISO 639-1: km
  • ISO 639-3: khm
  • Script: Khmr (Khmer)
  • Region: KH (Cambodia)
  • Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)

Speakers (approximate)

  • L1 (native): 19,000,000
  • L2 (additional): 1,000,000
  • L1+L2 (total): 20,000,000

Base locale

This is a regional variant of Locale Km 001 (Khmer), the base/macro locale for this language.

Pluralization

CLDR plural categories for this locale: other (1 form).

  • other — everything else (e.g. 0~15, 100, 1000, 10000, …)

See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.

Translating into this locale

Apply Locale Km 001 with the conventions of Cambodia.

  • Calendar: the Gregorian calendar is used in business; the Khmer solar calendar and Buddhist Era year (2569 is 2026) are used in official documents and festivals (Khmer New Year in April).
  • Currency: Cambodian riel (៛), with the US dollar widely used for prices; show the currency the product charges.
  • Names and titles: family name first, then given name; titles like លោក (Mr.), លោកស្រី (Mrs.), and អ្នកស្រី are used.
  • Tone: polite and respectful, with careful treatment of religion and the monarchy.

Common pitfalls

  • Showing only the Gregorian year on official forms.
  • Using Western name order.
  • The general pitfalls in Locale Km 001 also apply.

Learn more

  • Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
  • Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
  • Unicode CLDR locale data for km-KH (https://cldr.unicode.org)

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