An Austroasiatic language that is widely spoken in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand. Other locations, where Khmer is spoken in the Cambodian minority, is in the USA, France, and South Korea. Many thousands of years earlier, the civilization of the Khmer started around the Mekong River in present-day South China and Laos or Thailand. The Khmer are cousins to other Austroasiatic groups, including Mon, Wa, Munda, and Javanese. Those tribes were probably the oldest Southeast Asian natives and they stayed together, up until that point that they were pushed down further into Southeast Asia to intermarry or to assimilate many Australoid tribes, such as Negritos and Melanesians, that they borrowed a small number of Australoid phrases in their languages. While the Khmer established several kingdoms from the Funan Kingdom to the Khmer Empire, the Khmer adopted the Indian script for their written language. The Thai and Lao people would later adopt the same Indian script as the Khmer do in their own versions to communicate with each other better, despite Thai and Lao being categorized as Daic languages, unless people travel more south in Thailand and Laos, where the higher the Austroasiatic accent is spoken.
The Khmer made contact with Indians to trade with them and to allow Indians to visit their constructed temples. Angkor Wat is the most recognized temple, it is used the most to symbolize Cambodia's national flag, and it was the capital city of the Khmer Empire for centralized government affairs. Depressingly, when the Khmer Empire's centralized government power grew too corrupted and it was diminishing, the Thai and Vietnamese Kingdoms successfully overthrew the Khmer Empire, resulting in the Khmer shifting their main government from Angkor Wat to Phnom Penh and Cambodia being reduced to a small country even to this day, despite the alliance with the Chinese-ruled Tang and Song dynasties. In the 1970s, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were triggered that they lost so much of their former territories and they were paranoid that Vietnam will take over Cambodia, so the Cambodian holocaust occurred, which ethnic cleansed most Vietnamese-Cambodians and the Khmer Rouge invaded South Vietnam. Being unsuccessful in annexing South Vietnam, Vietnamese soldiers easily wiped the floor with the Khmer Rouge and the Hanoi government installed Hun Sen as the eternal prime minister of Cambodia from the 1980s to the present day.
by TheUnknown21 February 19, 2020
Khmer is very pretty girl who loves to dance and is not afraid to speak her mind . She’s very fun, loud, and can make friends easily . She’s always interested in ugly boys but it’s ok because she’s a void friend and will be there for you .
by Khmer aka mymy September 13, 2018
by SengUng May 7, 2003
The Khmer Rouge killed nearly two million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979, spreading like a virus from the jungles until they controlled the entire country, only to systematically dismantle and destroy it in the name of a Communist agrarian ideal. Today, more than 30 years after Vietnamese soldiers removed the Khmer Rouge from power, the first genocide trials will start — a bittersweet note of progress in an impoverished nation still struggling to rehabilitate its crippled economic and human resources.
The Khmer Rouge took root in Cambodia's northeastern jungles as early as the 1960s, a guerrilla group driven by communist ideals that nipped the periphery of government-controlled areas. The flash point came when Cambodia's leader, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, was deposed in a military coup in 1970 and leaned on the Khmer Rouge for support. The prince's imprimatur lent the movement legitimacy, although while he would nominally serve as head of state, he spent much of the Khmer Rouge's rule under house arrest. As the country descended into civil war, the Khmer Rouge presented themselves as a party for peace and succeeded in mobilizing support in the countryside.
by Dancing with Fire June 19, 2011
The guy who wrote the song "Smoke Weed"
Somehow people got a hold of this song, even though I don't think Khmer Kid even has a CD or single, and now people play it all the time thinking it is the best weed smoking song ever, even though Khmer Kid probably made the song off his Dell computer. That being said, the song is actually pretty good for being made in his house/room.
Somehow people got a hold of this song, even though I don't think Khmer Kid even has a CD or single, and now people play it all the time thinking it is the best weed smoking song ever, even though Khmer Kid probably made the song off his Dell computer. That being said, the song is actually pretty good for being made in his house/room.
by Gracen March 12, 2008
Dropping a shot of Hennessy into half a glass (6 oz) of Heineken.
- An alcoholic drink invented by 3 Khmers living in Northern Virginia on April 16th, 2010. They combined the two most popular drinks consumed by Khmers into bomb form to celebrate Khmer New Year.
- An alcoholic drink invented by 3 Khmers living in Northern Virginia on April 16th, 2010. They combined the two most popular drinks consumed by Khmers into bomb form to celebrate Khmer New Year.
by Ankgor October 9, 2011
Cambodians born raised at tha bottom of vietnam so basically cambodians who speak viet and khmerr. Typical people with the last names of : Thach,Son,Huynh,Kim,Le,Danh,Hang,
Most likely theyre khmer krom or someone in there family is
Most likely theyre khmer krom or someone in there family is
im khmer krom mangggg !
by BlazinPhillyJawn April 10, 2009