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Khmer is spoken by some 13 million people in Cambodia, where it is the official language. It is also a second language for most of the minority groups and indigenous hill tribes there. Additionally there are a million speakers of Khmer native to southern Vietnam (1999 census) [10] and 1.4 million in northeast Thailand (2006). [11]
Pages in category "Languages of Cambodia" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bahnaric languages;
Bunong language (sometimes spelled 'Mnong') is the native language of the Bunong people. It is a member of Bahnaric branch of Austroasiatic languages and is distantly related to Khmer and other languages spoken in the Cambodian highlands (excluding Jarai and Rade which are Austronesian languages closely related to Cham).
Khmer language, the language of the Khmers, also the official and national language of Cambodia Khmer Khe dialect, a Khmeric language spoken in Stung Treng Province, Cambodia; Northern Khmer dialect, a dialect of the Khmer language spoken by the ethnic Khmers in Northeast Thailand
A Khmer village meeting. The Khmers are one of the oldest ethnic groups in the area, having filtered into Southeast Asia around the same time as the Mon.Most archaeologists and linguists, and other specialists like Sinologists and crop experts, believe they arrived no later than 2000 BCE (over four thousand years ago) bringing with them the practice of agriculture and in particular the ...
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... Cambodia: 27 2 29 0.41 16,326,490 583,089 5,210
Since the Thai language is the medium of public education and, until the 21st century, the media, Khmer is taught at home or by monks in the local Khmer temples, often supported by Khmers in Cambodia or Western nations. [24] [25] In Thailand, Northern Khmer is written in the Thai script. [19]
Khmer script (Khmer: អក្សរខ្មែរ, Âksâr Khmêr [ʔaksɑː kʰmae]) [3] is an abugida (alphasyllabary) script used to write the Khmer language, the official language of Cambodia. It is also used to write Pali in the Buddhist liturgy of Cambodia and Thailand. Khmer is written from left to right.