Talk:Khmer people

message: Don't have time now but this article needs to be subsectioned, wikified, copyedited and sourced.--WilliamThweatt 04:30, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That, it does. NeoApsara 19:29, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

text: For now, I'll just delete the part about Khmers chewing betel nuts. I mean many do, but it reads more like something you find in descriptional guide books for travelers than that of an encyclopedia. David P. Chandler's work would be good references, but I don't have them with me now. Otherwise, I'd be all over this one.NeoApsara 19:55, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikify April 2006

message: I removed the whole of External Links. Some of these sites serve do not help with learning more about the Khmer people. And some of them were added to support their agenda or advertise their site (such as the Khmerdoctors and that weblog link). Feel free to add better links that do not have an agenda or are personal pages. External links should be informative in regards to the article (i.e. provide information on Khmer people) with no bias and unverified information. --Hecktor 16:12, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
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message: Should that infobox for Ethnic groups in Vietnam be removed from this article? The term Khmer Krom is used to refer to Khmers in what is now southern Vietnam (and there is an infobox there already in that article). --Hecktor 16:15, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethnic groups in Vietnam? 

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message: The article says Khmers and Mons are closely related, really?  I know of three Mon-Khmer sub grouping, Northern, Eastern and Southern and the Khmers are in the Eastern group along with the Bahnars, Pearics, and Vietic.  Mon are in the southern group, which the nicobarese are also.  Althought clearly related, it is like saying the Germanic and Romance are closely related.  I suggest taking this one out. --CanCanDuo 16:13, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Closely Related? 

message: For dedicated editors of this page: The "Related Groups" info was removed from all  infoboxes. Comments may be left on the Ethnic groups talk page. Ling.Nut 21:08, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
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message: I was looking for the origin of the name "Khmer" and I couldn't find any information. I don't know if that's because the origin of "Khmer" is unknown. But even in that case, the fact that it's unknown should at least be mentioned. Henrypijames 15:13, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: While the etymology of the ethnonym "Khmer" is not known with certainty, it is assumed by most scholars to derive from an ancient ethnonym of probable Mon-Khmer origin.  I find this topic quite interesting, but there is little source material available either on the internet or in commonly available publications.  The Khmer themselves have been aware of the lack of knowledge concerning the etymology of the word and from an early period have considered the Sanskrit-sounding term "khemera" as the source.  However, according to the Center for Khmer Studies in Siem Reap, "the word 'khemara' is actually a coining by the Khmers themselves, and is a pseudo-Pāli reconstruction of the ethnonym “Khmer” – a term of probably Mon-Khmer origin"..  The theory most accepted by scholars is that the term "khmer" contains an ancient Mon-Khmer element, 'khaa', which most likely meant something similar to "people".  This element is also evident in other Mon-Khmer ethnonyms such as Khmu, Katu and Khasi.  Although this hypothetical element has been lost in modern Khmer, 'khaa' was borrowed into Thai/Lao and originally used as a general term to refer to the Mon-Khmer peoples in Thai/Lao areas, but in historical times has come to have a derogatory meaning and in modern usage is often taken to mean "slave" (see ).--William Thweatt Talk | Contribs 20:16, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology of "Khmer"? 

message: The infobox on the right says that Cambodia has a Khmer population of 13.9 million, but the body text says that only 90% of Cambodia's 13.9 million inhabitants are Khmer.  Which is correct? LachlanA (talk) 03:05, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch.  13.9 million is the current estimate of the total population of Cambodia of which approximately 90% (or 12.5 million) are ethnic Khmers. I have edited the infobox to reflect this.--William Thweatt Talk | Contribs 19:03, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  90% of 13.9 million, or 100% of 13.9 million? 

message: This article gives a population of 1.7 million for Vietnam, while the Khmer Krom article (about Khmers in Vietnam) gives the figure of 527,174. What is the reason for this discrepancy and which is correct? Badagnani (talk) 21:40, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Population in Vietnam

message: It would be helpful to include IPA and/or audio to show how the name is pronounced.AdeMiami (talk) 21:29, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you ask me, it should be in the first paragraph, how "khmer" is pronounced --24.184.206.83 (talk) 00:11, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

text: I took a stab at it. I don't know how close I got since this is my first attempt at anything like this but maybe an expert will pick it up if I missed. WTucker (talk) 00:33, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation of  "Khmer"

message: nabataeans was added as link as they were people as skilled in building waterways (eg at Angkor city), structures as the Khmer people  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.182.165.179 (talk) 17:58, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Link

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_people  DoesN'T show, skips over , the carpet bombings! http://rabble.ca/toolkit/on-this-day/us-secret-bombing-cambodia  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.216.86.101 (talk) 03:54, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
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message: I think that khmer are origined from kambojas that are indo-iranian warriors Ipradyuman (talk) 12:21, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Thinking it does not make it so. No reliable source makes this claim. In fact, quite the opposite, numerous DNA studies have shown that Mon-Khmer populations (including the Khmer) are genetically distinct from Indo-Iranians. The ancient name of Cambodia, "Kambuja", comes from two Pali/Sanskrit words Kambu ("gold") and ja ("born of" or "giving birth to"), giving a loosely translated "place birthed in gold" or "land born of gold". The name was a reference to the term Suvarnabhumi ("Land of Gold") used by ancient India to refer to various lands of Southeast Asia. They are completely unrelated to the Indo-Iranian Kambojas at the other end of the continent 5000+ miles away.--William Thweatt TalkContribs 22:31, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
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message: The information in the table seems to be about ethnic Koreans. Is it a mistake that it has been posted in the Khmer article or maybe I am missing something?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.91.212.222 (talk) 11:23, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it is about Koreans, I think it was included because it includes a section about Cambodia. I have deleted it because it is more or less off topic. Thanks!--AsadalEditor (talk) 15:28, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
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message: Ethnic people from 3 provinces of Thailand (Surin, Buriram, and Sisaket call themselves Kuy or Suay, not Khmer. Some linguistics treat Kuy dialect as a separate language from Khmer. MTha2557 (talk) 07:32, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kuy and Suay 

message: Now khmer new generation forgot khmer culture and use Thai culture instead by said they are original. 58.8.171.15 (talk) 09:18, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Khmer period