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History Forum / General / Archaeology / March 2008Cambodia, Kamboj, and Dravidians
I am keenly aware that the etymology of the word "Cambodia" is from a North Indian surname, "Kamboj". To this day in Northern India, mostly in Punjab, this family name still exists. I am also keenly aware of how the Cholas, which was predominantly a Tamil Dynasty, and how they even ruled as far as Camobdia/Indonesia. Here are my questions about these areas: 1. Did the Indonesians/Cambodians/Indo-Chinese ever speak a Dravidian language? Did it play a role in their culture/civilization? 2. When (not where) did the toponym of "Cambodia" apply? I can't find info on this. 3. It's far more likely that the Kamboj were originally from the Tamil Nadu or Eastern India than from landlocked Northern India. What was the original linguistic group for the "Kamboj" tribe that brought "Indianisms" to Indo-China? We shouldn't rule out the possibility that the Kamboj who spread Indianisms to Indo-China were Dravidians because Dravidian kings typically had Sanskritic names - i.e. "Rajaram" or "VIjaynagar." From my understanding of how Hinduism spread to Bali, the Tamils of India spread it to Bali, but strangely, the Tamils also spread Islam to that area around 1100 AD. On Mar 27, 2:39 am, "2.7182818284590..." <tangent1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am keenly aware that the etymology of the word "Cambodia" is from a > North Indian surname, "Kamboj". To this day in Northern India, mostly [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > 1. Did the Indonesians/Cambodians/Indo-Chinese ever speak a Dravidian > language? Did it play a role in their culture/civilization? hindu was taken to sumatra /java first. in the local dilect it translate as stone grazer /worshipper the khmer are originally from sumatra /java. They settled in mainland asia and had a brief war with Java/sumatra and establish their kingdom in funan. as ties with java/sumatra had been cut the khmer made direct contact with bharat and invited/ employed hindu priest in the royal court to teach..gradually as trade florished buddhism lower vehicle teaching came via cylon into java/sumatra and into mainland asia and in the 1500 century arab trades made malaysia/indonesia islam like it is today.. high vehicle went north of bharat to afghanistan and tibet and into china and so before the khmer the chams who were hindu believers also came from the malay achipelago and settled in the coast of today central vietnam.The kingdom of chams there temple and cham monuments 2500 years old in vietnam literature was bali (sankrit) were borrowed from the kingdom of Candi of cylon ie kampong means village in malaysian /indonesian/khmer as for language they had their own language but for noble family and priest sankrit was fashionable learning like English in today world.. There are like intermarriage between khmer and bharati... thank goodness caste system was not included... 2.7182818284590... a écrit : > I am keenly aware that the etymology of the word "Cambodia" is from a > North Indian surname, "Kamboj". To this day in Northern India, mostly > in Punjab, this family name still exists. > 1. Did the Indonesians/Cambodians/Indo-Chinese ever speak a Dravidian > language? Did it play a role in their culture/civilization? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > was the original linguistic group for the "Kamboj" tribe that brought > "Indianisms" to Indo-China? The khmer language is classified by linguists in the same family called Austroasiatic as the Mounda languages which are spoken in North-East India ( Bihar , Orissa). There are not Dravidian languages. > 2.7182818284590... a écrit : >> I am keenly aware that the etymology of the word "Cambodia" is from a [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Austroasiatic as the Mounda languages which are spoken in North-East > India ( Bihar , Orissa). There are not Dravidian languages. Besides, the name of the Philippines comes ultimately from Philip of Macedonia via the kings of the same name in Spain, but that doesn't indicate much movement of people or "tribes" of any kind from northern Greece to the Pacific. Paulo > > 2.7182818284590... a écrit : > >> I am keenly aware that the etymology of the word "Cambodia" is from a [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > indicate much movement of people or "tribes" of any kind from northern > Greece to the Pacific. If you want to go back to Philip of Macedon, then you should probably include the etymology of the name, "Lover of Horses." Though I don't see how that relates to the original question. > > > 2.7182818284590... a écrit : > > >> I am keenly aware that the etymology of the word "Cambodia" is from a [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Quite - it's the usual typically irrelevant comment |
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