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Of the Austroasiatic languages, only Vietnamese, Khmer, and Mon have lengthy, established presences in the historical record. Only two are presently considered to be the national languages of sovereign states: Vietnamese in Vietnam, and Khmer in Cambodia.
Mon, like the related Khmer language, but unlike most languages in mainland Southeast Asia, is not tonal. The Mon language is a recognised indigenous language in Myanmar as well as a recognised indigenous language of Thailand. [2] Mon was classified as a "vulnerable" language in UNESCO's 2010 Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger. [3]
Diffloth places Khmer in an eastern branch of the Mon-Khmer languages. [8] In these classification schemes Khmer's closest genetic relatives are the Bahnaric and Pearic languages . [ 9 ] More recent classifications doubt the validity of the Mon-Khmer sub-grouping and place the Khmer language as its own branch of Austroasiatic equidistant from ...
The Proto-Mon–Khmer language is the reconstructed ancestor of the Mon–Khmer languages, a purported primary branch of the Austroasiatic language family.However, Mon–Khmer as a taxon has been abandoned in recent classifications, making Proto-Mon–Khmer synonymous with Proto-Austroasiatic; [12] the Munda languages, which are not well documented, and have been restructured through external ...
Northern Khmer has the typical Mon-Khmer consonant and syllable structure although there is no phonemic phonation. [3] The primary divergences from Central Khmer phonology are in the realizations of some syllable-final consonants and in the vowel inventory. [3] Northern Khmer is also losing the sesquisyllabic pattern of its sister languages. [18]
The Mon language is part of the Monic group of the Austroasiatic languages (also known as Mon–Khmer language family), closely related to the Nyah Kur language and more distantly related to Khmer and Vietnamese. The writing system is based on Indic scripts. The Mon language is one of the earliest documented vernacular languages of Mainland ...
They speak the Khmer language, which is part of the larger Austroasiatic language family alongside Mon and Vietnamese. The majority of Khmer people follow Theravada Buddhism .
The Monic / ˈ m oʊ n ɪ k / languages are a branch of the Austroasiatic language family descended from the Old Monic language of the kingdom of Dvaravati in what is now central Thailand. The Nyahkur people continue directly from that kingdom, whereas the Mon are descendants of those who migrated to Pegu after the 11th century Khmer conquest ...