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2 days ago · Southern Brahmi gave rise to the Grantha alphabet (6th century), the Vatteluttu alphabet (8th century), and due to the contact of Hinduism with Southeast Asia during the early centuries CE, also gave rise to the Baybayin in the Philippines, the Javanese script in Indonesia, the Khmer alphabet in Cambodia, and the Old Mon script in Burma.
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1 day ago · Pol Pot [a] (born Saloth Sâr; [b] 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian communist revolutionary, politician and a dictator who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979. Ideologically a communist and a Khmer ethnonationalist, he was a leading member of Cambodia's communist movement, the Khmer Rouge ...
- 1963–1997
4 days ago · The script did not come into popular use. Theravada Buddhist-professing regions use distinct scripts to transcribe Pali: India: Devanāgarī, Ahom script; Bangladesh: Bengali, Chakma; Sri Lanka: Sinhala; Myanmar: Mon-Burmese, Lik-Tai; Cambodia: Khmer; Thailand: Thai (since 1893; historically Tai Tham, Khom Thai and Ariyaka script)
- 3rd century BCE – present, Liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism
- [paːli]
2 days ago · By Ginny Stein. May 22, 2024. The seven million people who live in Laos come from at least 49 ethnic groups and speak scores of languages and dialects. But whether it is their mother tongue or one ...
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3 days ago · The language has been written in the Khmer script, an abugida descended from the Brahmi script via the southern Indian Pallava script, since at least the 7th century. The script's form and use has evolved over the centuries; its modern features include subscripted versions of consonants used to write clusters and a division of consonants into ...
4 days ago · The Khmer New Year - Choul Chnam Thmey in the Khmer language - is one of Cambodia's major holidays. Check out everything you need to know about this festival of Khmer people in Cambodia and around the world including the origin, tradition, and music during the event.
