Khmer Explained

Khmer(s) may refer to:

Cambodia

• 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
  • Khmer Loeu, the Mon-Khmer highland tribes in Cambodia
  • Northern Khmer people, ethnic Khmer people of Northeast Thailand
• Khmer (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters of the Khmer script
• Khmer architecture, the architecture of Cambodia
• Khmer cuisine, the dominant cuisine in Cambodia
• Khmer Empire, which ruled much of Indochina from the 9th to the 13th centuries
• Khmer Issarak, anti-French, Khmer nationalist political movement formed in 1945
• 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
  • Western Khmer dialect, a dialect of the Khmer language spoken by the Khmers native to the Cardamom Mountains
• Khmer nationalism, a form of nationalism founded in Cambodia
• Khmer Republic, 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
• Khmer script, the script used to write the Khmer and Khmer Loeu languages
• Khmer Serei, anti-communist and anti-monarchist guerrilla force founded by Cambodian nationalist Son Ngoc Thanh
• Political terms coined by Norodom Sihanouk based on the word 'Khmer':
  • Khmer Bleu, Sihanouk's domestic opponents on the right
  • Khmer Rouge, a Cambodian Communist political group and guerrilla movement
  • Khmer Việt Minh, Cambodian communists who lived in exile in North Vietnam after the 1954 Geneva Conference

Other uses

• Khmer (album), a 1997 jazz album by Nils Petter Molvær
• Khmer (food), traditional dish native to Jizan, Saudi Arabia
• , a 1997 nonfiction book by Thierry Zéphir

See also

• • Khemara (disambiguation)