An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c25.s4.55
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In Ceylon and the S.-E. Asian countries—Burma, Kampuchea (Cambodia), Cochin China, Thailand, Malaya and Indonesia—merchants, fortune-seekers and Brāhmaṇical and Buddhist priests from India took with them their script as well. Cham-Khmer formed a definite family of scripts. The French scholars Aymonier and Cabaton trace two early varieties of the Cham-Khmer scripts: (1) the lapidary script found in inscriptions, and (2) the current hand traceable in a few inscriptions, from which evolved nearly all the current scripts.