Modern Mon

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Modern Mon is the contemporary form of the Mon language spoken primarily by the Mon people in Myanmar and Thailand.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Modern Mon canonical 2

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mon language variety
language
ancestor Old Mon NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Nyahkur language NERFINISHED
Old Mon NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasDialect Lower Mon NERFINISHED
Thai Mon NERFINISHED
Upper Mon NERFINISHED
hasGlottocode monn1252
hasISO6393Code mnw
hasLinguasphereCode 45-FEA-a
hasLoanwordsFrom Burmese language NERFINISHED
Pali NERFINISHED
Sanskrit NERFINISHED
Thai language NERFINISHED
influencedBy Burmese language NERFINISHED
Pali NERFINISHED
Sanskrit NERFINISHED
Thai language NERFINISHED
languageBranch Monic
languageFamily Austroasiatic
phonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
register or voice quality contrasts
region Bangkok Metropolitan Region NERFINISHED
Lower Myanmar NERFINISHED
Mon State NERFINISHED
Tanintharyi Region NERFINISHED
Western Thailand NERFINISHED
revitalizationEffort Mon-language media and publications
community-based language schools
scriptDerivedFrom Burmese script NERFINISHED
scriptUltimatelyDerivedFrom Brahmi script NERFINISHED
spokenBy Mon people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Myanmar NERFINISHED
Thailand NERFINISHED
subclassOf Austroasiatic language
Mon language NERFINISHED
Monic language
threatenedBy language shift to Burmese
language shift to Thai
typologicalFeature SVO basic word order
predominantly analytic morphology
usedFor cultural ceremonies
daily communication among Mon people
religious texts
usesNumeralSystem Mon numerals NERFINISHED
writingSystem Mon script NERFINISHED
writingSystemType abugida

Referenced by (2)

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

Middle Mon precedes Modern Mon
Middle Mon descendant Modern Mon