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Mon

A language of Myanmar

ISO 639-3: mnw

Population	743,000 in Myanmar (2004). Population total all countries: 851,000.
Region	Eastern delta region from east of Rangoon as far as Ye in Southern Mon state. Also in Thailand.
Alternate names	Mun, Peguan, Talaing
Dialects	Mataban-Moulmein (Central Mon, Mon Te), Pegu (Northern Mon, Mon Tang), Ye (Southern Mon, Mon Nya).
Classification	Austro-Asiatic, Mon-Khmer, Monic
Language use	The Mon can read Burmese [mya] and are generally bilingual in Burmese.
Language development	Bible: 1928.
Writing system	Myanmar (Burmese) script.
Comments	Remnants of a nation that once spread over southern Myanmar and western Thailand. SVO.

Also spoken in:

Thailand

Language name	Mon
Population	108,000 in Thailand (2000).
Region	On Myanmar border, Kanchanaburi, Pathum Thani, Rat Buri, Surat Thani, Lopburi, Khorat; north and south of Bangkok.
Language maps	Northern Thailand, reference number 27 Southern Thailand, reference number 27
Alternate names	Aleng, Mun, Peguan, Takanoon, Talaing, Taleng
Comments	Many apparently integrated with the Thai; in other areas they are separate. Traditional religion, Buddhist.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

ALVES, Mark J., author. 2001. "Distributional properties of causative verbs in some Mon-Khmer languages."  

AMON Thavisak, author. 2001. "The effects of glottal finals on pitch in Southeast Asian languages."  

JENNY, Mathias, author. 2003. "New infixes in spoken Mon."  

JENNY, Mathias, author. 2006. "Mon 'raʔ' and 'noŋ': assertive particles?."  

NAI Pan Hla, author. 1998. "Kyansittha and the Indic words in Myanmar from Mon."  

PRAPASRI, Dumsa-ard; SUJARITLAK, Deepadung, authors. 2007. "From Moulmein in Myanmar to Sangkhla Buri in Thailand: an ethnographic study of a Mon village."  

SUJARITLAK, Deepadung, author. 1996. "Lexica: Mon et Nong Duu, Lamphun Province."  

UMAPORN Sungkaman, author. 2007. "Backchannel response in Mon conversation."