Mon language

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Mon language is an Austroasiatic language historically spoken in parts of Myanmar and Thailand, notable for its ancient literary tradition and influence on regional scripts and cultures.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Mon language canonical 24
Old Mon language 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austroasiatic language
language
basicWordOrder SVO
earliestInscriptionsDateTo 6th century
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Mon people
glottologCode monn1252
glottologName Mon
hasAncientCorpus inscriptions
religious texts
royal edicts
hasAncientLiteraryTradition true
hasDialects Lower Burmese Mon
Martaban
surface form: Martaban Mon

Thai Mon
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
final consonant stops
register or voice quality distinctions
historicalRegion Dvaravati
Hariphunchai
southern Myanmar
surface form: Lower Burma
historicalScript Old Mon script
influenced Burmese language
Khmer
surface form: Khmer language

Thai language
iso639-1Code none
iso639-2Code mnw
iso639-3Code mnw
languageFamily Austroasiatic
surface form: Austroasiatic language family
morphologicalType analytic language
nativeTo Bago Region
Bangkok Metropolitan Region
surface form: Bangkok region

Central Thailand
Mon State
Tanintharyi Region
region Myanmar
Thailand
scriptInfluenceOn Burmese script
Khmer script
Tai Tham script
surface form: Lanna script

Thai script
statusInMyanmar recognized ethnic minority language
statusInThailand minority language
subfamilyOf Monic languages
usedInAdministration historical Mon kingdoms
usedInReligion Theravada
surface form: Theravada Buddhism
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem Mon script
Myanmar script
Thai script

Referenced by (25)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mon-Khmer hasLanguage Mon language
Austroasiatic hasLanguage Mon language
Mon language Mon language
Burmese script writingSystemFor Mon language
Mon people language Mon language
Mon people nativeNameLanguage Mon language
Khasi language relatedTo Mon language
Mon Khmer includesLanguage Mon language
Mon Khmer hasMajorLanguage Mon language
Proto-Austroasiatic ancestorOf Mon language
Old Mon descendedTo Mon language
Middle Mon subdivisionOf Mon language
Mon Americans languageTradition Mon language
Dvaravati primaryLanguage Mon language
Thaton associatedLanguage Mon language
Martaban languageOfLocalPopulation Mon language
Thaton Kingdom hasLanguage Mon language
Hanthawaddy Kingdom language Mon language
southern Myanmar language Mon language
subject surface form: Southern Myanmar
Old Mon script primaryLanguageWritten Mon language
this entity surface form: Old Mon language
Mon script associatedLanguage Mon language
Mon script scriptFor Mon language
Mawlamyine languageUsed Mon language