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After four long years of study and research by experts and professors across the country, an update of the Khmer Dictionary has been published and will be available in many bookstores in September this year, said Sorn Pov, Vice President of the National Council of Khmer Language (NCKL).

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After four long years of study and research by experts and professors across the country, an update of the Khmer Dictionary has been published and will be available in many bookstores in September this year, said Sorn Pov, Vice President of the National Council of Khmer Language (NCKL).

Sorn Pov said the updated version contained 44,697 words, derived from 31,073 original words through the joint cooperation and support from the government of Cambodia, NCKL and the Royal Academy of Cambodia (RAC).

“Although the updated dictionary will be printed and available in bookstores by September however, readers can use it on the smartphone, as the data and application were already hosted online,” he said.

Secretary-general of the RCA, Yang Peou said, “To catch up with the whole and community evolution, new words, phrases and sentences must be developed and updated to improve the communication understanding and interaction ability.”

Yang Peou said that the project aimed to insert new terms and words with the original work of Chuon Nath, a visionary monk who developed the Khmer Language Dictionary.

With the cooperation with NCKL, experts and professors have elevated Khmer literature aiming to create a dictionary based on ancient Khmer terms that help preserve our culture and identity, he added.

According to RAC, the Khmer dictionary app was launched last year and it was available for both Android and ISO system.