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5 days ago · 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 ...
3 days ago · The Mon people, who descended from Proto-Austroasiatic people, are believed to have migrated from the Yangtze Kiang valley in Southern China to Southeast Asia between 3,000 and 2,000 BCE, along the Mekong, Salween, Sittaung, Irrawaddy, Ping and Chao Phaya rivers.
1 day ago · The Hmong people ( RPA: Hmoob, Nyiakeng Puachue: 𞄀𞄩𞄰 , Pahawh Hmong: 𖬌𖬣𖬵, IPA: [m̥ɔ̃́]) are an indigenous group in East Asia and Southeast Asia. In China, the Hmong people are classified as a sub-group of the Miao people.
May 26, 2024 · The Khmer Empire was known for its extensive hydraulic cities situated in what is now northern Cambodia. It was a prominent Hindu-Buddhist empire that emerged from the earlier civilization of Chenla and endured from 802 to 1431 AD.
5 days ago · Khmer, any member of an ethnolinguistic group that constitutes most of the population of Cambodia. Smaller numbers of Khmer also live in southeastern Thailand and the Mekong River delta of southern Vietnam. The Khmer language belongs to the Mon-Khmer family, itself a part of the Austroasiatic.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 23, 2024 · Khmer is a language spoken throughout southeast Asia, particularly in the nation of Cambodia. It is spoken by more than 20 million people, with the majority speaking it as a native language. Khmer is part of the Austro-Asiatic family of languages, and is related to languages such as Vietnamese and Mon.
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May 10, 2024 · This page features 34 Khmer and Pali (in Khmer script) manuscripts from the Southeast Asian Rare Book Collection. The texts include selections from Theravada canonical works like the Suttapitaka and Abhidhamma, as well as Jataka tales.
