Editing Languages of the United States (section)

===Khmer (Cambodian)===
{{main|Cambodian Americans}}
Between 1981 and 1985 about 150,000 Cambodians resettled in the United States.<ref>[http://www.apiahf.org/resources/pdf/Cambodians_in_the_United_States.pdf] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325111513/http://www.apiahf.org/resources/pdf/Cambodians_in_the_United_States.pdf|date=March 25, 2009}}</ref> Before 1975 very few Cambodians came to the United States. Those who did were children of upper-class families sent abroad to attend school. After the [[fall of Phnom Penh]] to the communist Khmer Rouge in 1975, some Cambodians managed to escape. In 2007 the American Community Survey reported that there were approximately 200,000 Cambodians living in the United States, making up about 2% percent of the Asian population. This population is, however, heavily concentrated in two areas: the [[Los Angeles metropolitan area]] in [[California]], especially the city of [[Long Beach, California|Long Beach]]; and [[Greater Boston]] in [[New England]], especially [[Lowell, Massachusetts]]. These two areas hold a majority of the Cambodians living in the US.