Khmer is a member of the Austro-Asiatic language family, the most archaic family in an area that stretches from the Malay Peninsula through Southeast Asia to East India.

According to the Sejarah Melayu (" Malay Annals "), the Khmer prince Raja Ganji Sarjuna founded the kingdom of Gangga Negara ( modern-day Beruas, Perak ) in the 700s.

At times, the Khmer kingdom, the Siamese kingdom, and even Cholas kingdom tried to exert control over the smaller Malay states.

Indianized kingdoms such as the Mon, Khmer and Malay kingdoms had ruled the region.

The Malay prince was married to a Khmer princess who had fled an Angkorian dynastic bloodbath.

For instance, the Malay empires of Srivijaya and Malacca covered modern day Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore while the Burmese, Thai, and Khmer peoples governed much of Indochina.

However, some languages in the region are not tonal at all, including Mongolian, Khmer, and Malay.

However it is not clear if the inhabitants were Mon, a mix of Mon and Malay, or Khmer.

An Apsara ( Sanskrit: अप ् सर ाः, plural अप ् सरस ः, stem apsaras -, a feminine consonant stem, អប ្ សរ ា), is also known as Vidhya Dhari or Tep Apsar ( ទ េ ព ​ អប ្ សរ ) in Khmer, Accharā ( Pāli ) or A Bố Sa La Tư ( Vietnamese ), Bidadari ( Indonesian & Malay ), Biraddali ( Tausug ), Hapsari or Widodari ( Javanese ) and Apson ().

In either case the original word was pronounced parangiar in Tamil, or pfirangi in Sanskrit and entered Khmer as barang and Malay as ferenggi.

Regionally dominant families are Japonic in Japan, Austronesian in the Malay Archipelago ( dark red ), Kadai and Mon – Khmer in Southeast Asia ( azure and peach ), Dravidian in South India ( khaki ), Turkic in Central Asia ( grey ), and Semitic in the Mideast ( orange ).

English: kaffir lime ; French: citron combera, citron ridé ; Indonesian / Malay: jeruk obat, jeruk purut, limau purut ; Khmer: krô: ch saë: ch ; Thai magrood ; also known as combava, kieffer lime, makrut lime or kabuyao / cabuyao.

The Khmer name for the province is Nokor Reach Seima, the Malay name is

Lakshmana ( Sanskrit: लक ् ष ् मण, IAST ;, ; Chinese: Loman ; Indonesian and Javanese: Leksmana, Lesmana, Lesmono ; Khmer :; Lao :; Malay: Laksamana ; Maranaw: Mangawarna ; Tamil ; ) was the brother and close companion of Rama, and himself a hero in the famous epic Ramayana.

Kaikeyi ( Sanskrit: क ै क े य ी, Kaikeyī, Burmese: Kaike, Malay: Kekayi, Thai: Kaiyakesi, Khmer: Kaikesi ), in the Hindu epic Rāmāyaṇa, was the last of King Daśaratha's three wives and a queen of Ayodhyā.

Hinduism in Southeast Asia gave birth to the former Champa civilization in southern parts of Central Vietnam, Funan in Cambodia, the Khmer Empire in Indochina, Langkasuka Kingdom, Gangga Negara and Old Kedah in the Malay Peninsula, the Srivijayan kingdom on Sumatra, the Singhasari kingdom and the Majapahit Empire based in Java, Bali, and parts of the Philippine archipelago.

Dasharatha ( Sanskrit: दशरथ, IAST Daśaratha, Tibetan: ཤ ི ང ་ ར ྟ་ བཅ ུ་ པ, Khmer: Dasarath, Malay: Dasarata, Burmese: Dasagiri, Yuan: Dattaratthah, Tamil: Dhasarathan, Thai: Thotsorot, Lao: Thotarot, Chinese: 十车王 ) was, according to Ramayana, the king of Ayodhya and a descendant of the Ikshvaku dynasty ( also known as Suryavamsha or Raghuvaṃśa ).

At the same time, Srivijayan lands in Malay Peninsula ( now Southern Thailand ) was briefly a tributary state of the Khmer empire and later the Sukhothai kingdom.

The Khmer Rouge expanded from their bases in the Cardamom Mountains to set up at Phnom Malay on the Thai border, while the ANS created a new field headquarters at Tatum.

Sumitra (, Tamil: ச ு மத ் த ி ர ை, Burmese: Thumitra, Malay: Samutra, Khmer: Sramut ) in the Indian Ramayana epic, was the third of King Dasaratha's three wives and a queen of Ayodhyā.

The voice is computer-generated in ten languages: Chinese ( Singapore ), English ( every country ) Indonesian ( Indonesia ), Khmer ( Cambodia ), Lao ( Laos ), Malay ( Malaysia, Brunei ), Tagalog ( Philippines ), Tamil ( Singapore ), Thai ( Thailand ) and Vietnamese ( Vietnam )

Islam is the religion of a majority of the Cham ( also called Khmer Islam ) and Malay minorities in Cambodia.

Pallava royal lineages were established in the old kingdom of Kedah of the Malay Peninsula under Rudravarman I, Chenla under Bhavavarman I, Champa under Bhadravarman I and the Kaundinya-Gunavarman line of the Funan in Cambodia, eventually their rule growing to form the Khmer Empire.

Later, Malay, Mon, and Khmer civilizations flourished in the region prior to the domination of the Thais, most notably the kingdom of Srivijaya in the south, the Dvaravati kingdom in central Thailand and the Khmer empire based at Angkor.

* Khmer shadow theatre

The epic is well known among the Khmer people for its portrayal in Khmer dance theatre, called the Lkhaon, in various festivals across Cambodia.

Khmer theatre of the ancient style ), a term alienating it from its royal legacy.

The Austro-Asiatic ( Austroasiatic ) languages, in recent classifications synonymous with Mon – Khmer, are a large language family of Southeast Asia, also scattered throughout India and Bangladesh.

These form thirteen established families ( plus perhaps Shompen, which is poorly attested, as a fourteenth ), which have traditionally been grouped into two, as Mon – Khmer and Munda.

However, recent classifications have abandoned Mon – Khmer as a taxon, either reducing it in scope or making it synonymous with the larger family ( Diffloth 2005, Sidwell 2009 ).

Much work has been done on the reconstruction of Proto-Mon – Khmer in Harry L. Shorto's Mon – Khmer Comparative Dictionary.

Little work has been done on the Munda languages, which are not well documented ; with their demotion from a primary branch, Proto-Mon – Khmer becomes synonymous with Proto-Austro-Asiatic.

Sidwell ( 2005 ) reconstructs the consonant inventory of Proto-Mon – Khmer as follows:

* Khmer New Year in Cambodia – April 13

It is also the earliest recorded and earliest written language of the Mon – Khmer family, predating Mon and by a significant margin Vietnamese.

Pre-Angkorian Khmer, the language after its divergence from Proto-Mon – Khmer until the ninth century, is only known from words and phrases in Sanskrit texts of the era.

Some historians have cited the U. S. intervention and bombing campaign ( spanning 1965 – 1973 ) as a significant factor leading to increased support of the Khmer Rouge among the Cambodian peasantry.

* 1971 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.

* 1998 – Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million lives.

* 1997 – Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.

* 1979 – Third Indochina War – Cambodian – Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.

** Khmer Pradal Serey – similar to Muay Thai with an emphasis on elbow techniques ( Ring-wise ).

The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the 10-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967 – 68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.

In the central and southern mountains, Mon – Khmer tribes known as Lao Theung or upland Lao, predominate.