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Topic: Mon Khmer


  
  Cambodia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Khmer Rouge justified its actions by claiming that Cambodia was on the brink of major famine due to the American bombing campaigns, and that this required the evacuation of the cities to the countryside so that people could become self-sufficient, however this claim is generally dismissed as an excuse by many.
Khmer culture, as developed and spread by the Khmer empire, has distinctive styles of dance, architecture and sculpture which have strongly influenced neighbouring Laos and Thailand.
Khmer culture is very hierarchical, in that the greater a person's age, the greater the level of respect that must be granted to them.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cambodia   (4417 words)

  
 Khmer language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Khmer is one of the main Austroasiatic languages.
Khmer is somewhat unusual among its neighboring languages (Thai, Laotian and Vietnamese) in that it is not a tonal language.
Khmer primarily an isolating language, but lexical derivation by means of prefixes and infixes is common.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Khmer_language   (609 words)

  
 Mon-Khmer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Khmer Language Site devoted to the teaching of the Khmer alphabet and to basic notions of Khmer grammar, as well as containing a Khmer phrase book and links to Khmer dictionaries.
Khmer Inscription and Language Illustrated site devoted to early inscriptions in the Khmer language.
Khmer Ceramics Photographs and a short synopsis of Khmer Empire ceramic art from Asia Art.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Mon-Khmer.html   (274 words)

  
 Euro-Mon Community
About the middle of that century the Mon area was much reduced by Burmese conquests, culminating in the total annexation of the Mon country to the Burmese kingdom of Pagan and the settlement of Tavoy and Southern Tenasserim by Burmese, who thus cut off the Mon race from their connexion with the more distant south.
Mon is a member of a fairly large but much broken down and scattered family of languages, which extends (in detached fragments) from the extreme west of the Central Provinces of India through Assam and Indo-China right down into the Malay Peninsula.
The kings, both Burmese and Mon, seem to have indulged in a double nomenclature: an elaborate Indian name, sometimes of stupendous length, was used by them as their royal style, though they had shorter native names as well, by which (as a rule) they are known in the histories.
www.eumon.org /HistoryOfMonInscription.htm   (4995 words)

  
 Khmer - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Khmer
Traditionally, Khmer society was divided into six groups: the royal family, the Brahmans (who officiated at royal festivals), Buddhist monks, officials, commoners, and slaves.
The Khmer empire reached its zenith in the 9th-13th centuries, with the building of the capital city and temple complex at Angkor.
The anti-French nationalists of Cambodia adopted the name Khmer Republic 1971–75, and the name continues in use by the communist movement called the Khmer Rouge.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Khmer   (232 words)

  
 Cambodia - LANGUAGES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Khmer belongs to the Mon-Khmer family of the Austroasiatic phylum of languages.
Khmer, in contrast to Vietnamese, Thai, Lao, and Chinese, is nontonal.
Khmer is divided into three stages--Old Khmer (seventh to twelfth century A.D.), Middle Khmer (twelfth to seventeenth century A.D.), and Modern Khmer (seventeenth century to the present).
www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-2131.html   (479 words)

  
 Khmer Inscription Khmer Language - Cambodia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This could lead us to imagine that the Khmers were devout to their gods in whom they revered as their protector, and god's blessing would bring them prosperity.
Generally, the Khmer inscription had its own distinction and the content was mostly a listing of assets, covering from paddy fields, cattle, objects and furniture, as well as the names of slaves which were owned by the temples.
Many literatures and other Khmer manuscripts, being written on unendurable materials other than on stone, are believed to have been lost with time, and some may have been survived until present day as local folklores.
www.cambodia-travel.com /khmer/inscription.htm   (568 words)

  
 Khmer/Cambodian alphabet, pronunciation and language
The Khmer alphabet is descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India by way of the Pallava script, which was used in southern India and South East Asia during the 5th and 6th Centuries AD.
The Khmer alphabet closely resembles the Thai and Lao alphabets, which were developed from it.
In a Khmer text there are no spaces between words, instead spaces indicate the end of a clause or sentence.
www.omniglot.com /writing/khmer.htm   (326 words)

  
 About Khmer
Remnants of the Khmer Rouge and other groups organized the Coalition Government of Democratic Kâmpùchéa in opposition to the Vietnamese-backed regime and were able to retain Cambodia’s seat at the United Nations (UN).
The Mon and the Khmer peoples moved into Southeast Asia before the Christian era, probably from the north, arriving before their present neighbors—the Vietnamese, Lao, and Thai.
Khmer Rouge remnants, meanwhile, with some support from non-Communists, continued resistance, especially in areas on the Thai border, and they retained Cambodia’s UN seat.
members.tripod.com /sophanara35/about.htm   (3379 words)

  
 AsiaFinest Discussion Forum -> Shakta Religion-religion Of Mon-khmer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As the Khmer ruling class slowly came under the influences of India, the Khmer ruling ladies were replaced by Khmer Kings.
As a result of the patriarchal influences of India, China, and France, the Khmer ruling queens were replaced by Khmer kings, the mixed Khmer children carry their father's last names, and the Khmer women adopted their husbands' last names after they got married.
Also, it is interesting to note that during the Khmer traditional wedding ceremony or ritual, when everything is all said and done, the groom himself is MADE to follow the lead of the Khmer bride.
www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=7630   (3985 words)

  
 KCC: Khmer Cultural Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Khmer Cultural Center is a non-profit community based arts organization rooted in the arts and cultural tradition, and experience of Cambodia.
Khmer Cultural Center was founded by Mon Duch, Chum Sambath, Chetra Keo, Narin Antoniades, and Sean Theng Ban in 1998.
Our aim is to position Khmer Cultural Center as a national center for Cambodian arts and culture in an effort to advance the Cambodian community and to create an environment for artistic innovations.
www.khmermarket.com /kcc   (118 words)

  
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This event was to prove culturally decisive for the Burmans because the Mon captives included many Theravada Buddhist monks, who converted the Burmans to Theravada Buddhism; Pali replaced Sanskrit as the language of the sacred literature, and the Burmans adopted the Mon alphabet.
The Mon are still centred in southeastern Myanmar, though their numbers are small compared to those of the ethnic Burmans.
King Minkyinyo (1486-1531) of Toungoo is considered the founder of the dynasty which conquered the Mohnyin Shan peoples in northern Myanmar, thus eliminating one element of the fragmentation that had existed in Myanmar since the demise of the Bagan dynasty in 1287.
www.mingalaronline.com /websites/Burmese_Kindoms.htm   (3271 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Mon-Khmer languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Language families Khmer is one of the main Austroasiatic languages.
The Mon language is an Austroasiatic language spoken in Myanmar.
Khasi is an Austroasiatic language spoken in the four districts of Meghalaya state in India, namely East Khasi Hills district, West Khasi Hills district, Jaiñtia Hills district and Ri Bhoi district.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mon_Khmer-languages   (387 words)

  
 Thailand - The Khmer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Theravada Buddhists and wet-rice cultivators, the Khmer spoke a language of the Mon-Khmer group and were heirs to a long and complex political and cultural tradition.
If long-term resident Khmer and Khmer refugees were both included, there were perhaps as many as 600,000 to 800,000 Khmer living in Thailand in the 1980s.
Many of the long-resident Khmer were said to speak Thai, sometimes as a first language, and religious and other similarities contributed over time to Thai-Khmer intermarriage and to Khmer assimilation into Thai society.
www.countrystudies.us /thailand/45.htm   (212 words)

  
 KHMER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Die Khmer sind das Staatsvolk von Kambodscha und stellen mit mehr als 12 Millionen Einwohnern mehr als 85% der Bevölkerung, ca.
Die Khmer sind eng verwandt mit den Mon, einem Bergvolk, dessen Reste in Thailand siedeln.
In der zeitgenössischen Geschichte ist die Barbarei der Roten Khmer zu nennen, die zwischen 1975 - 1979 mehr als einer Million Khmer das Leben kostete.
www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/K/Khmer   (168 words)

  
 Early History of Thailand, The Mon, Khmer and Sukhothai
Meanwhile the Khmer laid the foundation for their great empire of the ninth to fifteenth centuries A.D. This empire would be centered at Angkor (near modern Siem Reap) in Cambodia.
The Mon were receptive to the art and literature of India, and for centuries they were the agents for diffusing Hindu cultural values in the region.
Ultimately, however, obsession with palaces and temples led the Khmer rulers to divert too much manpower to their construction and to neglect the elaborate agricultural system-- part of Angkor's heritage from Funan--that was the empire's most important economic asset.
motherearthtravel.com /history/thailand/history-3.htm   (1604 words)

  
 Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Languages: Natural: Austro-Asiatic: Mon-Khmer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Khmer Inscription and Language  · cached · Illustrated site devoted to early inscriptions in the Khmer language.
The Khmer Language  · iweb · cached · Site devoted to the teaching of the Khmer alphabet and to basic notions of Khmer grammar, as well as containing a Khmer phrase book and links to Khmer dictionaries.
Rien Khmer  · cached · A site devoted to the teaching of Khmer, with emphasis on the script, the phonology, and the numerals of the language.
www.incywincy.com /default?p=799158   (175 words)

  
 Online Burma Library > Main Library > Languages of Burma > Mon-Khmer Languages (Mon, Wa etc)
A Dictionary of the Wa Language with English, Chinese, and Burmese (Myanmar) Glosses and Internet Database for Minority Languages of Burma (Myanmar) "...The SOAS Wa Dictionary Project is a three-year effort (2003-2006), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board to produce a high quality dictionary, translating Wa into Chinese, Burmese/Myanmar and English.
Mon is a Mon-Khmer language which is spoken in Burma and Thailand.
This website is an experimental hypertext grammar of the language, written by working with a native speaker of Mon, Min T. Naing, during a linguistics class at the University at Albany.
www.burmalibrary.org /show.php?cat=401   (149 words)

  
 Mon-Khmer languages --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The language used in the ancient Khmer empire and in...
The Khmer language belongs to the Mon-Khmer family, itself a part of the Austroasiatic stock.
The Khmer are primarily an agricultural people who are concentrated in the central lowland and along the coast.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9053296?tocId=9053296   (808 words)

  
 mon son pa : a mon/khmer hides a cloth
He may choose to drop the cloth behind any one without his awareness and walks on pretending that the cloth is still in his hand.
When the Mon completes the round he picks up the cloth and beats that player who now runs away around the circle and back to sit down at his own place.
The Mon continues the game and elects to drop the cloth behind any of the next players.
www.thaitravelers.com /childhood/monson/monson.html   (183 words)

  
 Mon-Khmer civilizations (from Thailand) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Mon have lived in their present area for the last 1,200 years, and it was they who gave Myanmar its writing (Pali) and its religion (Buddhism).
kingdom of the Mon people, who were powerful in Myanmar (Burma) from the 9th to the 11th and from the 13th to the 16th century and for a brief period in the mid-18th century.
Nearly 20 years after embarking on a bloody campaign to control Cambodia, during which millions of people were murdered, the Khmer Rouge in the late 20th century still represented one of the most horrifying periods in human history.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-52673   (974 words)

  
 A selected bibliography of Mon linguistics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
An acoustical study of the register distinction in Mon.
Remnant of a lost nation and their cognate words to Old Mon Epigraph [sic?].
Shorto, H.L. A dictionary of the Mon inscriptions from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries.
www.albany.edu /~gb661/monbib.html   (112 words)

  
 VOA News - Khmer Service - Programs and Affiliates
VOA Khmer broadcasts comprehensive news and feature radio programs about Cambodia, America and the world.
VOA Khmer Service's first broadcast was on August 15, 1955.
VOA Khmer is broadcast by VOA's 1000 KW medium wave transmitter in Bangkok and by shortwave transmitters from the Philippines.
www.voanews.com /khmer/programs_and_affiliates.cfm   (249 words)

  
 CRCL, Bangkok -- Mon-Khmer Writing
The Mon-Khmer writing systems include Lao, Thai, Burmese (even though the spoken language is in the Tibeto-Burmese group), Khmer, and various minority languages.
Mon and Khmer diverged first, then Burmese came from Mon.
The earliest Thai/Lao scripts were derived in the latter part of the 13th century from cursive Khmer writing.
seasrc.th.net /font/alphabet.htm   (229 words)

  
 Mon Khmer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
of beautiful moments _ khamen paireua, lao duangduen, pama hae, and kaek mon, to name...
The young Khmer is used to playing for guests, usually tourists or music...
They belong to the Mon Khmer language ethnic group.
www.wikiverse.org /mon-khmer   (122 words)

  
 Enlaces : Science : Social_Sciences : Linguistics : Languages : Natural : Austro-Asiatic : Mon-Khmer :: 100cia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Khmer Inscription and Language - Illustrated site devoted to early inscriptions in the Khmer language..
Mon-Khmer Word Order from a Crosslinguistic Perspective - Paper by Matthew S. Dryer arguing that the assumption that languages tend to be consistently head-initial or head-final is not true, and that verb-object order does not exhibit crosslinguistic correlation with the order of various kinds of modifiers..
Rien Khmer - A site devoted to the teaching of Khmer, with emphasis on the script, the phonology, and the numerals of the language..
www.100cia.com /recursos/enlaces/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Austro-Asiatic/Mon-Khmer   (213 words)

  
 Mon-Khmer Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Mon-Khmer languages -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
(The Mon-Khmer language spoken in Cambodia) Khmer (or Cambodian) in (A nation in southeastern Asia; was part of Indochina under French rule until 1946) Cambodia (7 million)
Aslian in peninsular (A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957) Malaya, split into three groups, Jahaic, Senoic and Semelaic.
(The Mon-Khmer language spoken by the Mon people) Mon in the lower (Click link for more info and facts about Salween) Salween, (A mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal) Burma (1 million).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/mon-khmer_languages1.htm   (352 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Southeast Asian languages : The Mon-Khmer Subfamily (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
Languages of the Mon-Khmer subfamily include Cambodian (or Khmer), Mon (or Talaing), and a number of other languages, such as Cham of Cambodia and southern Vietnam, Semang and Sakai of the Malay Peninsula, Nicobarese of the Nicobar Islands, and Khasi of Assam in India.
They are agglutinative in that different linguistic elements, each of which exists separately and has a fixed meaning, are often joined to form one word.
Cambodian and Mon have their own scripts, which are descended from alphabets of India.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/SthEAslang-the-mon-khmer-subfamily.html   (226 words)

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