Sample video in Khmer

The Khmer script, known as Khorm in Thai, is an ancient writing system, that arrived in Southeast Asia around the seventh century. This script descended from the Brahmi script, of ancient India, specifically through the Pallava script, of South India. What makes this particularly interesting. is that the Khmer script. is actually the ancestor of the modern Thai script we use today. In Thailand, and Laos, this Khmer derived writing. was traditionally reserved. for sacred and scholarly texts. Thai

Thai language and alphabet

The Thai script was adapted from Old Khmer in the 13th century during the reign of King Ramkhamhaeng, as noted by Cambridge University Press. Many Thai royal and temple terms such as Racha and Prasat are borrowed directly from Khmer. Thai and Khmer belong to different language families, with Khmer classified as Austroasiatic and Thai as Tai-Kadai, showing that Thai writing and high-register vocabulary were imported from Khmer sources. “The Thai script was based on Old Khmer letters, with adjustm