(Khmer: អាណាចក្រហ្វូណន) was the name given by the Chinese to an antiquated kingdom situated in southern Southeast Asia focused on the Mekong Delta that existed from the first to 6th century CE. The name is found in Chinese authentic writings depicting the kingdom, and the most broad portrayals are to a great extent in view of the report of two Chinese negotiators, Kang Tai and Zhu Ying, speaking to the Wu Kingdom of Nanking who stayed in Funan in the mid-third century AD.
Funan is known in the current dialects of the area as វ្នំ Vnom (Khmer) or នគរភ្ Nokor Phnom (Khmer), ฟูนาน (Thai), and Phù Nam (Vietnamese), in any case, the name Funan is not found in any writings of nearby starting point from the period, and it is not comprehended what name the general population of Funan provided for their country. A few researchers contended that antiquated Chinese researchers interpreted the word Funan from a word identified with the Khmer word bnaṃ or vnaṃ (present day: phnoṃ, signifying "mountain"), others however suspected that Funan may not be a translation by any stretch of the imagination, rather it implied what it says in Chinese, which means something like "Appeased South".
Like the very name of the kingdom, the ethno-phonetic nature of the general population is the subject of much talk among pros. The main speculations are that the Funanese were for the most part Mon–Khmer, or that they were for the most part Austronesian, or that they constituted a multi-ethnic culture. The accessible proof is uncertain on this issue. Michael Vickery has said that, despite the fact that recognizable proof of the dialect of Funan is impractical, the confirmation firmly recommends that the populace was Khmer.[2] The consequences of paleontology at Oc Eo have illustrated "no genuine irregularity between Oc Eo and pre-Angkorian levels", demonstrating Khmer phonetic predominance in the territory under Funan control.
In light of the confirmation of the Chinese history specialists, the country Funan is accepted to have been set up in the first century CE in the Mekong Delta, yet archeological examination has demonstrated that broad human settlement in the locale may have done a reversal to the extent the fourth century BCE. In spite of the fact that viewed by Chinese creators as a solitary bound together commonwealth, some cutting edge researchers suspect that Funan may have been an accumulation of city-expresses that occasionally at war with each other and at different times constituted a political unity.[4] From archeological confirmation, which incorporates Roman, Chinese, and Indian products exhumed at the old commercial focus of Óc Eo (from the Khmer អូរកែវ Ou Kaeo, signifying "glass trench") in southern Vietnam, we realize that Funan more likely than not been a capable exchanging state.[5] Excavations at Angkor Borei in southern Cambodia have moreover conveyed proof of an essential settlement. Since Óc Eo was connected to a port on the coast and to Angkor Borei by an arrangement of tren
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