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Khmer (/ k ə ˈ m ɛər / kə-MAIR; [3] ខ្មែរ, UNGEGN: Khmêr) is an Austroasiatic language spoken natively by the Khmer people. This language is an official language and national language of Cambodia. The language is also widely spoken by Khmer people in Eastern Thailand and Isan, Thailand, also in Southeast and Mekong Delta of Vietnam.
However, one recent classification posits three groups (Munda, Mon-Khmer, and Khasi–Khmuic), [3] while another has abandoned Mon–Khmer as a taxon altogether, making it synonymous with the larger family. [4] Scholars generally date the ancestral language to c. 3000 BCE – c. 2000 BCE with a homeland in southern China or the Mekong River valley.
As a vast majority of ethnic Chinese emigrated from Cambodia following the Khmer Rouge, the community has assimilated greatly into Cambodian society and many now speak Khmer as their main language. As the largest group of Chinese Cambodians, Teochew is the most commonly native spoken Chinese variety.
The Khmer of Cambodia speak a dialect of the Khmer language. The Northern Khmer (Khmer Surin) are ethnic indigenous Khmers whose lands once belonged to the Khmer Empire but have since become part of Thailand. The Northern Khmer also speak the Isan language fluently. Maintaining close relations with the Khmer of Cambodia, some now reside in ...
Northern Khmer has the typical Mon-Khmer consonant and syllable structure although there is no phonemic phonation. [3] The primary divergences from Central Khmer phonology are in the realizations of some syllable-final consonants and in the vowel inventory. [3] Northern Khmer is also losing the sesquisyllabic pattern of its sister languages. [18]
Khmer language (7 C, 21 P) Pages in category "Languages of Cambodia" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
English is increasingly used across various domains in Cambodia, including education, business, tourism, technology, and media, leading some scholars to describe it as a "language of transformation." [3] However, the growing prevalence of English raises concerns about potential impacts on Khmer language proficiency and cultural identity. [3]
The Khmer language is a member of the Mon–Khmer subfamily of the Austroasiatic language group. French , once the language of government in Indochina , is still spoken by many older Cambodians, and is also the language of instruction in some schools and universities that are funded by the government of France.