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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.

287,929
Tokens
8,985
Distinct words
9
Documents

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.

#WordFrequencyPer 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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