ATLAS OF LANGUAGE

Eurasia · ISO 639-3 khm · Glottocode cent1989

Central Khmer

Central Khmer represents an Austroasiatic language with the Khmer script and a Cambodian geographic reference point.

Language family
Austroasiatic
Likely script
Khmer (Khmr)
Source status
not endangered
Macroarea
Eurasia
Source country codes
KH · LA · TH · VN
Reference point
12.052, 105.015

Open research question

Which relationships among orthography, register and educational use can be established from current specialist sources?

This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.

Scholarly boundary

The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.