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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.
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 .
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]
The romanization of Khmer is a representation of the Khmer (Cambodian) language using letters of the Latin alphabet. This is most commonly done with Khmer proper nouns , such as names of people and geographical names, as in a gazetteer .
Srok Khmer (lit. "Khmer land" or "Land of the Khmer(s)"), a colloquial exonym used to refer to Cambodia by Cambodians; see; Khmer people, the ethnic group to which the great majority of Cambodians belong Khmer Americans, Americans of Khmer (Cambodian) ancestry; Khmer Krom, Khmer people living in the Mekong Delta and Southeast Vietnam
The Khmer classical dance was placed in 2003 on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Cambodian culture has influenced Thai and Lao cultures and vice versa. Many Khmer loanwords are found in Thai and Lao, while many Lao and Thai loanwords are found in Khmer.
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.
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