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name: locale-km-kh
description: 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.
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# Locale: Khmer (Cambodia) (km-KH)

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)