Khmer
អក្សរខ្មែរSample Characters
First 48 characters from Khmer (U+1780–U+17F9)
About Khmer
The Khmer script is an abugida used to write the Khmer language, the official language of Cambodia. It is the script of the ancient Khmer Empire, which built the famous Angkor Wat temple complex.
Khmer script descended from the Brahmi script through the Pallava script of South India. It is written left-to-right and does not use spaces between words. The Khmer script influenced the development of the Thai, Lao, and Cham scripts. It has one of the largest character inventories among South and Southeast Asian scripts.
Data sourced from the ISO 15924 registry, Unicode CLDR, and the Unicode Character Database.
Languages Using Khmer 1
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Key Facts
- ISO Code
- Khmr
- ISO Number
- 355
- Script Type
- Abugida
- Direction
- Left-to-right
- Status
- Living
- Region
- Southeast Asian
- Characters
- 146
- Introduced
- 611 CE
- Languages
- 1
- Total Speakers
- ~16M
Unicode Ranges
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KhmerU+1780–U+17F9
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Khmer SymbolsU+19E0–U+19FF
Script Properties
- Has Case
- No
- Cursive
- No
- Vowels
- inherent