Middle Mon

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Middle Mon is a historical stage of the Mon language, an important early written Austroasiatic language of mainland Southeast Asia.

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Middle Mon canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austroasiatic language variety
Mon language
historical language stage
ancestor Old Mon
associatedReligion Theravada
surface form: Theravada Buddhism
descendant Modern Mon
documentedIn metal inscriptions
palm-leaf manuscripts
stone inscriptions
follows Old Mon
hasFeature final consonant codas
register contrast in vowels
hasISO639Code none
hasWritingTradition true
influenced Burmese language
Burmese script
languageFamily Austroasiatic
surface form: Austroasiatic languages
morphologicalType analytic language
phonologicalType monosyllabic tendency
precedes Modern Mon
preservedAs epigraphic language
liturgical language
region southern Myanmar
surface form: Lower Burma

Pegu region
Thaton
surface form: Thaton region

mainland Southeast Asia
role important early written Austroasiatic language
scriptDirection left-to-right
scriptOrigin derived from Old Mon script
scriptType Brahmic abugida
standardLanguageOf Mon polities in Lower Burma
status extinct as a spoken variety
studiedIn Austroasiatic historical linguistics
epigraphy of mainland Southeast Asia
subdivisionOf Mon language
subfamily Monic languages
timePeriod approximately 12th century to 18th century CE
usedBy Mon people
usedFor Buddhist texts
religious inscriptions
royal inscriptions
usedIn Dvaravati
surface form: Dvaravati cultural sphere

Hanthawaddy Kingdom
Thaton Kingdom
writingSystem Burmese script
Mon script

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