An audio recording by Researcher Marie Alexandrine Martin
If anybody is interested in what the Chong language sounds like. I have provided a link.
https://pangloss.cnrs.fr/corpus/Chong%2 ... g=en&mode=
Audio of the Chong language
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Nice! The Chong people are the original Khmer. 'Chong' means 'person' in Pearic language, and it is related to the Khmer word 'Jon' (ជន), which also means 'person'. Both of these terms are derrived from the Sanskrit word 'jana', meaning 'person'. From the tenth century upwards, these two words evolved into two different meanings: 'chong' (ជង) as the term to lable the animistic tribal Khmer people from the highlands, and 'jon' (ជន) as the word for 'person'.kke802 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:58 amAn audio recording by Researcher Marie Alexandrine Martin
If anybody is interested in what the Chong language sounds like. I have provided a link.
https://pangloss.cnrs.fr/corpus/Chong%2 ... g=en&mode=
The name 'chong' seems to have been the original name of the Khmer people. They became known as 'Khmer', because of the verb 'Kher' (to gather), since the most ancient Khmer people gathered people and animals, and assigned them to temples to serve the royal court, and so created their communities. The Khmer people used the suffix-m- to denote a person with a specific task which is named after a specific verb, so 'kher' became 'kh-m-er' (a person who gathers others), as those who gathered the people and animals were the elite tribal people who founded the ancient Khmer civilizations.
The Chong people who remained in their original habitat also remained their original name, and are still known as Chong, while the urbanized people became known as Khmer. Therefore, the term 'person' related to the term for 'chong' was continued by the Khmer people since it was the original word for 'person' by all the ancient Khmer tribes, but evolved into two different terms to distinguish between the word 'person' and 'a member of the Chong tribes' when the Khmer tribes started to view their Chong cousins as inferior.
In the 16th century, there was a Chong person who became king of Cambodia.
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Correction: the term 'khmer' was already in use in the inscriptions from the 8th century upwards. The first time Chong is used as a class denotion in the inscriptions (ជង) is in the 7th century, meaning that at least from the 7th century the Khmer distinguished themselves from the Chong.. The first time 'Jon' (ជន) is used as the Khmer noun for 'person' in the inscriptions is in the 10th century.
I didn't know the word Chong was used in the inscription. Do you have information about the inscription? I would like to take a look at it.SEAhistory wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 9:13 pmCorrection: the term 'khmer' was already in use in the inscriptions from the 8th century upwards. The first time Chong is used as a class denotion in the inscriptions (ជង) is in the 7th century, meaning that at least from the 7th century the Khmer distinguished themselves from the Chong.. The first time 'Jon' (ជន) is used as the Khmer noun for 'person' in the inscriptions is in the 10th century.
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I didn't know the word Chong was used in the inscription. Do you have information about the inscription? I would like to take a look at it.
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Old Khmer Dictionary
Here is the link to the Old Khmer Dictionary, which is composed of all translations of the majority of known Old Khmer inscriptions. If you search for the word 'Chong' in the section of [Text], you will find all inscriptions which mention 'Chong' as ethnic group. I saw it was mentioned in 15 different inscriptions from the 6th century to the 12th centuries AD. We know from the report of Zhou Daguan that the 'Chuang' were subordinate to the urban Khmer population at the end of 13th century as servants and slaves. They were described as 'thieving Chuang' by the Khmer people of Angkor.
I didn't know the word Chong was used in the inscription. Do you have information about the inscription? I would like to take a look at it.
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Old Khmer Dictionary
Here is the link to the Old Khmer Dictionary, which is composed of all translations of the majority of known Old Khmer inscriptions. If you search for the word 'Chong' in the section of [Text], you will find all inscriptions which mention 'Chong' as ethnic group. I saw it was mentioned in 15 different inscriptions from the 6th century to the 12th centuries AD. We know from the report of Zhou Daguan that the 'Chuang' were subordinate to the urban Khmer population at the end of 13th century as servants and slaves. They were described as 'thieving Chuang' by the Khmer people of Angkor.
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