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Funan was superseded and absorbed in the 6th century by the Khmer polity of Chenla ( Zhenla ).

The first inscription in the Khmer language is dated shortly after the fall of Funan.

A concentration of later Khmer inscriptions in southern Cambodia may suggest the even earlier presence of a Khmer population.

Despite absence of compelling evidence as to the ethnicity of the Funanese, modern scholar Michael Vickery has stated that " on present evidence it is impossible to assert that Funan as an area and its dominant groups were anything but Khmer ".