This is actually not a pronunciation or dialect issue at all, but a regular feature of how various vowels are represented in the writing system...it's just a set of rules, with a couple very predictable exceptions, that can be learned fairly easily. I explain it in detail (with lots of audio examples) in my textbooks:Jamie_Lambo wrote:the word for chicken always surprised me
its spelt មាន់ which is pretty much identical to មាន (to have)
but "to have" is pronounced Mean, and "chicken" is pronounced more like Moan
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