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Khmer legends and folk tales
រឿងព្រេងខ្មែរ (Khmer Legends & Folk Tales)
Traditional Khmer narrative prose — the oral storytelling register, which none of the other corpora contain.
Where this text comes from
Khmer folk narratives of the kind collected in ប្រជុំរឿងព្រេងខ្មែរ, the Buddhist Institute's compilation of oral tradition.
Licence and reuse
Public domain Downloadable
Rights holder: Traditional — no individual author
The stories themselves are traditional and carry no author's copyright. Where a modern printed edition supplied the wording, the editorial work of that edition may still be protected; the texts here are re-segmented rather than reproduced in any edition's layout.
Cite as
Khmer legends corpus. Segmented edition served by khmercorpus.com.
The 100 most frequent words
Counted across the whole corpus after word segmentation. “Per million” is the rate per million tokens, which is what lets you compare this corpus against one of a different size.
| # | Word | Frequency | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ទៅ | 7,707 | 26,767.0 |
| 2 | ថា | 5,297 | 18,396.9 |
| 3 | នោះ | 5,069 | 17,605.0 |
| 4 | ជា | 4,896 | 17,004.2 |
| 5 | ក៏ | 4,527 | 15,722.6 |
| 6 | ហើយ | 4,188 | 14,545.2 |
| 7 | មាន | 4,073 | 14,145.9 |
| 8 | ឲ្យ | 4,067 | 14,125.0 |
| 9 | បាន | 3,910 | 13,579.7 |
| 10 | ព្រះ | 3,894 | 13,524.2 |
| 11 | មក | 3,876 | 13,461.6 |
| 12 | នៅ | 3,197 | 11,103.4 |
| 13 | នេះ | 2,972 | 10,322.0 |
| 14 | នឹង | 2,568 | 8,918.9 |
| 15 | អ្នក | 2,534 | 8,800.8 |
| 16 | តែ | 2,291 | 7,956.8 |
| 17 | ដែល | 2,060 | 7,154.5 |
| 18 | មិន | 2,006 | 6,967.0 |
| 19 | យក | 1,963 | 6,817.6 |
| 20 | មួយ | 1,928 | 6,696.1 |
| 21 | នាង | 1,904 | 6,612.7 |
| 22 | ក្នុង | 1,851 | 6,428.7 |
| 23 | គ្នា | 1,838 | 6,383.5 |
| 24 | ដល់ | 1,760 | 6,112.6 |
| 25 | ពី | 1,760 | 6,112.6 |
| 26 | គេ | 1,746 | 6,064.0 |
| 27 | ធ្វើ | 1,736 | 6,029.3 |
| 28 | ទាំង | 1,710 | 5,939.0 |
| 29 | ខ្ញុំ | 1,529 | 5,310.3 |
| 30 | ឃើញ | 1,447 | 5,025.5 |
| 31 | តា | 1,391 | 4,831.1 |
| 32 | អញ | 1,391 | 4,831.1 |
| 33 | លោក | 1,311 | 4,553.2 |
| 34 | ទ្រង់ | 1,290 | 4,480.3 |
| 35 | ឯង | 1,275 | 4,428.2 |
| 36 | បុរស | 1,244 | 4,320.5 |
| 37 | បើ | 1,221 | 4,240.6 |
| 38 | តាម | 1,171 | 4,067.0 |
| 39 | វា | 1,161 | 4,032.2 |
| 40 | ថ្ងៃ | 1,142 | 3,966.3 |
| 41 | ឯ | 1,133 | 3,935.0 |
| 42 | ទេ | 1,121 | 3,893.3 |
| 43 | ណា | 1,096 | 3,806.5 |
| 44 | យើង | 1,096 | 3,806.5 |
| 45 | លុះ | 1,080 | 3,750.9 |
| 46 | ចៅ | 1,074 | 3,730.1 |
| 47 | វិញ | 1,067 | 3,705.8 |
| 48 | កូន | 1,062 | 3,688.4 |
| 49 | ដោយ | 1,061 | 3,684.9 |
| 50 | និង | 1,033 | 3,587.7 |
| 51 | ឡើង | 1,033 | 3,587.7 |
| 52 | ទៀត | 1,022 | 3,549.5 |
| 53 | ខ្លួន | 972 | 3,375.8 |
| 54 | ទើប | 972 | 3,375.8 |
| 55 | ស្ដេច | 962 | 3,341.1 |
| 56 | នាំ | 960 | 3,334.2 |
| 57 | ស្រុក | 949 | 3,295.9 |
| 58 | អា | 936 | 3,250.8 |
| 59 | ចូល | 932 | 3,236.9 |
| 60 | ពុំ | 923 | 3,205.7 |
| 61 | ទី | 865 | 3,004.2 |
| 62 | អង្គ | 863 | 2,997.3 |
| 63 | លើ | 846 | 2,938.2 |
| 64 | ដូច | 836 | 2,903.5 |
| 65 | រក | 820 | 2,847.9 |
| 66 | ណាស់ | 805 | 2,795.8 |
| 67 | កាល | 775 | 2,691.6 |
| 68 | ប្រពន្ធ | 766 | 2,660.4 |
| 69 | ប្រាប់ | 750 | 2,604.8 |
| 70 | អស់ | 730 | 2,535.3 |
| 71 | ផ្ទះ | 726 | 2,521.4 |
| 72 | ខាង | 721 | 2,504.1 |
| 73 | និយាយ | 713 | 2,476.3 |
| 74 | ចុះ | 711 | 2,469.4 |
| 75 | ដើរ | 711 | 2,469.4 |
| 76 | ផង | 709 | 2,462.4 |
| 77 | នាក់ | 707 | 2,455.5 |
| 78 | មើល | 702 | 2,438.1 |
| 79 | ប្ដី | 679 | 2,358.2 |
| 80 | របស់ | 676 | 2,347.8 |
| 81 | ត្រូវ | 675 | 2,344.3 |
| 82 | ចេញ | 668 | 2,320.0 |
| 83 | រួច | 666 | 2,313.1 |
| 84 | ចិត្ត | 664 | 2,306.1 |
| 85 | ដឹង | 649 | 2,254.0 |
| 86 | គាត់ | 643 | 2,233.2 |
| 87 | គិត | 623 | 2,163.7 |
| 88 | សត្វ | 616 | 2,139.4 |
| 89 | បង | 608 | 2,111.6 |
| 90 | ហៅ | 605 | 2,101.2 |
| 91 | មនុស្ស | 599 | 2,080.4 |
| 92 | ស្រី | 597 | 2,073.4 |
| 93 | ពេល | 596 | 2,069.9 |
| 94 | ការ | 576 | 2,000.5 |
| 95 | ម្នាក់ | 573 | 1,990.1 |
| 96 | អ្វី | 570 | 1,979.7 |
| 97 | ទឹក | 567 | 1,969.2 |
| 98 | ពីរ | 565 | 1,962.3 |
| 99 | ដាក់ | 563 | 1,955.3 |
| 100 | ស្លាប់ | 563 | 1,955.3 |
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