Khmer is spoken by some 13 million people in Cambodia, where it is the official language. It is also a second language for most of the minority groups and indigenous hill tribes there. Additionally there are a million speakers of Khmer native to southern Vietnam (1999 census) [10] and 1.4 million in northeast Thailand (2006). [11]

The differentiation of being labeled Khmer and Cambodian. Khmer is the ethnicity of the people and Cambodian is the nationality. If someone was going to travel to Cambodia, where would you recommend they visit?

What is the difference between khmer and cambodian? Cambodian is a synonym of khmer. The national language of Cambodia part of the Mon-Khmer language family. A member of an ethnolinguistic group that constitutes most of the population of Cambodia. An abugida used to write the Khmer language and sometimes Pali.

After escaping the Khmer Rouge regime to seek a more peaceful life in other nations, children who were born in Cambodia before or after the escape to France and the US generally understand Khmer language, yet formal and official usage of this language is still beyond their reach.

Cambodian is the major modern representative of the Mon-Khmer language family which includes hundreds of related dialects scattered over most of mainland Southeast Asia. As for foreign influences on the language, the Khmer language has borrowed many words from Sankrit.