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Ancient Khmer script engraved on stone An inscription in Khmer script, at the temple of Lolei. The Khmer script was adapted from the Pallava script, used in southern India and Southeast Asia during the 5th and 6th centuries AD, which ultimately descended from the Tamil-Brahmi script, The oldest dated Khmer inscription was found at Angkor Borei ...
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Language family: Austroasiatic, Mon-Khmer. Number of speakers: c. 18.6 million. Spoken in: Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand. First written: 9th century. Writing system: Khmer script. Status: official language in Cambodia. Recognised minority language in Vietnam and Thailand. Khmer shares many features and much vocabulary with Thai as a result of ...
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Old Khmer, a living language for eight centuries, is attested from the early 7th century A.D. to the first decades of the 15th century. It is the direct ancestor of Modern Khmer (Cambodian), and an important member of the Austroasiatic (Mon-Khmer) language phylum. Preserved in well over a thousand inscriptions, it embodies the most extensive
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The script is thought to be descended from the Brahmi Pallava script, and the Khmer literary tradition dates back to the 7th century. The modern Khmer script differs somewhat from precedent forms seen on the inscriptions of the ruins of Angkor. The Thai and Lao scripts are descended from an older form of the Khmer script.
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About the Dictionary of Old Khmer. This site explores and maintains Prof. Phillip Jenner's Dictionary of Pre-Angkorian Khmer and Dictionary of Angkorian Khmer (Pacific Linguistics, 2009). It also serves as a test site for two new projects: - the forthcoming Dictionary of Middle Khmer, and. - the forthcoming Corpus of Khmer Inscriptions .
Old Khmer was written in an early variant of the Khmer script derived from Pallava, a southern variant of Brahmi, and in turn became the basis of the scripts used for Thai and Lao. Along with Brahmi and Indian influence on Cambodia, Old Khmer saw an influx of Sanskrit loanwords in the domains of religion, philosophy, and to a lesser extent, in ...
Updated 14 December, 2022. This page brings together basic information about the Khmer script and its use for the Cambodian language. It aims to provide a brief, descriptive summary of the modern, printed orthography and typographic features, and to advise how to write Khmer using Unicode. Sample.
