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Northern Khmer people ( Khmer: ជនជាតិខ្មែរខាងជើង; Thai: เขมรเหนือ) or colloquially as Thais of Khmer origin ( Thai: ชาวไทยเชื้อสายเขมร ); [2] mostly referred to as Khmer Surin (Khmer: ខ្មែរសុរិន Thai: เขมรสุรินทร์) is the designation used to refer to ethnic Khmers native to the Isan region of Northeast Thailand. [3] [4] History.
The genetic testing website 23andMe groups Khmer people under the "Indonesian, Khmer, Thai & Myanmar" reference population. This reference population contains people who have had recent ancestors from Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand.
Northern Khmer (พซาคแมร; Khmer: ខ្មែរខាងជើង), also called Surin Khmer (Khmer: ខ្មែរសុរិន្ទ), is the dialect of the Khmer language spoken by approximately 1.4 million Khmers native to the Thai provinces of Surin, Sisaket, Buriram and Roi Et as well as those that have migrated from this ...
Northern Khmer (called Khmer Surin in Khmer) refers to the dialects spoken by many in several border provinces of present-day northeast Thailand. After the fall of the Khmer Empire in the early 15th century, the Dongrek Mountains served as a natural border leaving the Khmer north of the mountains under the sphere of influence of the Kingdom of ...
Northern Khmer may refer to: Northern Khmer people, ethnic Khmer inhabiting the Surin, Sisaket and Buriram Provinces of Thailand, as well as part of Nakhon Ratchasima Province.
Northern Khmer are mostly found in the lower northeast of Thailand, in the provinces of Buriram, Surin and Sisaket, which border Cambodia. They are also known as Thai-Khmer or Khmer-Surin. Northern Khmer speakers are also found in villages along the Thai-Cambodian border in Prachinburi province.
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Jan 15, 2010 · Northern Khmer is a Khmer language spoken in southeastern Thailand, mainly in the provinces of Surin and Sisaket. In 2006 there were about 1.4 million speakers of Northern Khmer, which is also known as Surin Khmer, Khmer Lue, Thailand Khmer and Upper Khmer.
