| Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader with Drills and Glossary Contributor(s): Huffman, Franklin E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300013140 ISBN-13: 9780300013146 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $47.52 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2002 Annotation: This volume consists of four parts: (1) The Cambodian Writing System, a formal description of the relationship between the writing system and the phonology of the language; (2) Programmed Reading Exercises, a series of highly structured reading drills to train the student to read all regular Cambodian word shapes; (3) Beginning Cambodian Reader, fifty reading selections, graded in length and difficulty, ranging from short, simple narratives to essays on various aspects of Cambodian culture; and (4) Cambodian-English Glossary, containing some 2,000 words. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Southeast Asian Languages (see Also Vietnamese) |
| Dewey: 495.932 |
| LCCN: 78104614 |
| Series: Yale Language |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 7.48" W x 9.7" (1.48 lbs) 380 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The reader contains 32 selections from some of the most important and best-known works of Cambodian literature in a variety of genres - historical prose, folktales, epic poetry, didactic verse, religious literature, the modern novel, poems and songs, and so forth. It concludes with a bibliography of some sixty items on Cambodian literature. The glossary combines the 4,000 or so items introduced in this reader with the more than 6,000 introduced in the previous two readers. |