Khmer may refer to:
Cambodia
*''Srok Khmer'' (lit. "Khmer land" or "Land of the Khmer(s)"), a colloquial exonym used to refer to
Cambodia
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. It is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, and Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline ...
by Cambodians; see
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Khmer people
The Khmer people (, Romanization of Khmer#UNGEGN, UNGEGN: , Romanization of Khmer#ALA-LC Romanization Tables, ALA-LC: ) are an Austroasiatic ethnic group native to Cambodia. They comprise over 95% of Cambodia's population of 17 million.https ...
, the ethnic group to which the great majority of Cambodians belong
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Khmer Americans, Americans of Khmer (Cambodian) ancestry
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Khmer Krom
The Khmer Krom (, , ; or 'Southern Khmer people') are ethnically Khmer people living in or from the Mekong Delta (Tây Nam Bộ), the south western part of Vietnam known in Khmer as Kampuchea Krom (, ). The Khmer Krom people are considered a ...
, Khmer people living in the Mekong Delta and Southeast Vietnam
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Khmer Loeu
The Khmer Loeu ( ; "upper Khmers") is the collective name given to the various indigenous ethnic groups residing in the highlands of Cambodia. The Khmer Loeu are found mainly in the northeastern provinces of Ratanakiri, Stung Treng, and Mo ...
, the Mon-Khmer highland tribes in Cambodia
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Northern Khmer people
Northern Khmer people (; ) or colloquially as Thais of Khmer origin (); mostly referred to as Khmer Surin (Khmer: ខ្មែរសុរិន្ទ Thai: เขมรสุรินทร์) is the designation used to refer to ethnic Khmers ...
, ethnic Khmer people of Northeast Thailand
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Khmer (Unicode block)
Khmer is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Khmer language, Khmer (Cambodian) language. For details of the characters, see Khmer alphabet#Unicode, Khmer alphabet – Unicode.
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History
The following Unicode-related docu ...
, a block of Unicode characters of the Khmer script
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Khmer architecture
Khmer architecture (), also known as Angkorian architecture (), is the architecture produced by the Khmer during the Angkor period of the Khmer Empire from approximately the later half of the 8th century CE to the first half of the 15th century ...
, the architecture of Cambodia
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Khmer cuisine
Cambodian cuisine is the national cuisine of Cambodia. It reflects the varied culinary traditions of different ethnic groups in Cambodia, central of which is Khmer cuisine (, ), the nearly-two-thousand-year-old culinary tradition of the Khmer pe ...
, the dominant cuisine in Cambodia
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Khmer Empire
The Khmer Empire was an empire in Southeast Asia, centered on Hydraulic empire, hydraulic cities in what is now northern Cambodia. Known as Kambuja (; ) by its inhabitants, it grew out of the former civilization of Chenla and lasted from 802 t ...
, which ruled much of Indochina from the 9th to the 13th centuries
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Khmer Issarak
The Khmer Issarak (, or 'Independent Khmer') was a "loosely structured" anti- French and anti-colonial independence movement. The movement has been labelled as “amorphous”. The Issarak was formed around 1945 and composed of se ...
, anti-French, Khmer nationalist political movement formed in 1945
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Khmer language
Khmer ( ; , Romanization of Khmer#UNGEGN, UNGEGN: ) 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 i ...
, the language of the Khmers, also the official and national language of Cambodia
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Khmer Khe dialect
Khmer Khe (or Hakka Khmer; ) is a Khmeric language spoken in Stung Treng Province, Cambodia. It has an estimated lexical similarity of between 95 and 96% with Central Khmer.
Names
Alternate names for Khmer Khe include Khmer Khes and Khmer Kha- ...
, a Khmeric language spoken in Stung Treng Province, Cambodia
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Northern Khmer dialect
Northern Khmer (; ), also called Surin Khmer (), is the dialect of the Khmer language spoken by approximately 1.4 million Khmers native to the Thai provinces of Surin, Sisaket, Buriram and Roi Et as well as those that have migrated from th ...
, a dialect of the Khmer language spoken by the ethnic Khmers in Northeast Thailand
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Western Khmer dialect, a dialect of the Khmer language spoken by the Khmers native to the Cardamom Mountains
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Khmer nationalism
Khmer nationalism (or Cambodian nationalism) is a form of nationalism found in Cambodia, that asserts that Khmers (Cambodians) are a nation and promotes the cultural unity of the Khmer (Cambodian) race.
Emergence of Khmer nationalism
Unlike in ...
, a form of nationalism founded in Cambodia
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Khmer Republic
The Khmer Republic (, ; ) was a Cambodian state under the United States-backed military dictatorship of Marshal Lon Nol from 1970 to 1975. Its establishment was formally declared on 9 October 1970, following the 18 March 1970 coup d'état w ...
, the official name of Cambodia from 1970 to 1975
*Khmer Sâ (White Khmer), a pro-US force formed by the Khmer Republic's defence minister
Sak Sutsakhan
Major general Sak Sutsakhan (; 8 February 1928Some sources give 2 August. – 29 April 1994) was a Cambodian politician and soldier who had a long career in the country's politics. He was the last Head of State of the Khmer Republic, the regime ...
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Khmer script
Khmer script (, )Huffman, Franklin. 1970. ''Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader''. Yale University Press. . is an abugida (alphasyllabary) script used to write the Khmer language, the official language of Cambodia. It is also use ...
, the script used to write the Khmer and Khmer Loeu languages
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Khmer Serei
The Khmer Serei ( ; "Free Khmer") were an anti-communist and anti- monarchist guerrilla force founded by Cambodian nationalist Son Ngoc Thanh. In 1959, he published 'The Manifesto of the Khmer Serei' claiming that Sihanouk was supporting the ...
, anti-communist and anti-monarchist guerrilla force founded by Cambodian nationalist
Son Ngoc Thanh
Sơn Ngọc Thành (; 7 December 1908 – 8 August 1977) was a Cambodian nationalist and republican politician, with a long history as a rebel leader and (for brief periods) a government minister.
Early life
Thanh was born in Trà Vinh, Viet ...
*Political terms coined by
Norodom Sihanouk
Norodom Sihanouk (; 31 October 192215 October 2012) was a member of the House of Norodom, Cambodian royal house who led the country as Monarchy of Cambodia, King, List of heads of state of Cambodia, Chief of State and Prime Minister of Cambodi ...
based on the word 'Khmer':
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Khmer Bleu
The Sangkum Reastr Niyum (, , ;Headly, Robert K.; Chhor, Kylin; Lim, Lam Kheng; Kheang, Lim Hak; Chun, Chen. 1977. ''Cambodian-English Dictionary''. Bureau of Special Research in Modern Languages. The Catholic University of America Press. Washi ...
, Sihanouk's domestic opponents on the right
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Khmer Rouge
The Khmer Rouge is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), and by extension to Democratic Kampuchea, which ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The name was coined in the 1960s by Norodom Sihano ...
, a Cambodian Communist political group and guerrilla movement
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Khmer Việt Minh
The Việt Minh (, ) is the common and abbreviated name of the League for Independence of Vietnam ( or , ; ), which was a Communist Party of Vietnam, communist-led national independence coalition formed at Pác Bó by Hồ Chí Minh on 19 May 1 ...
, Cambodian communists who lived in exile in North Vietnam after the 1954 Geneva Conference
Other uses
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''Khmer'' (album), a 1997 jazz album by Nils Petter Molvær
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Khmer (food)
Khmer is the traditional dish of Bareg, native to Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia. Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula a ...
, traditional dish native to Jizan, Saudi Arabia
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Khmer: The Lost Empire of Cambodia'', a 1997 nonfiction book by Thierry Zéphir
See also
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Khemara (disambiguation)
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