Moken
Selung; Mawken; Basing; Selong; Salong; Salon; Chau Ko'; Moklen
Austronesian; Malayo-Polynesian; Moken-Moklen
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6,000 (Moken and Moklen together)
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About 4,000 in Burma and about 2,000 in Thailand, some no longer following their traditional migratory fishing lifestyle and some of these not speaking the language.
2007
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Burma: islands of the southeastern coast from Tavoy to the Thai border; and Thailand: islands off the southwest coast from the Burmese border to Phuket; also a few settlements on the coast.
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Burma: islands of the southeastern coast from Tavoy to the Thai border; and Thailand: islands off the southwest coast from the Burmese border to Phuket; also a few settlements on the coast.
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Known as Saloun in Burmese and sometimes as Chao Thalee ‘sea people’ in Thai; Moken is an autonym used by most dialect groups in Burma. Six dialect groups, from north to south Dung, Jait, Lebi and Niawi in Burma, Jadiak straddling the border, and Moklen in Thailand. There is one Jadiak village south of the Moklen at the southern tip of Phuket Island; but in this village there is extensive contact with Urak Lawoi and Thai and young people no longer speak traditional Moken.
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"7,000 in Myanmar (Johnstone 1993)."
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- When words erode: Proto-Austronesian trisyllabic syncopation in MokenPittayawat Pittayaporn. 2006. When words erode: Proto-Austronesian trisyllabic syncopation in Moken. Paper presented at the 10th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Puerto Princesa, the Philippines. January 17-20.http://www.sil.org/asia/philippines/ical/papers/pittayaporn-When%20Words%20Erode.pdf
- Moken as a Mainland Southeast Asian LanguagePittayawat Pittayaporn. 2005. Moken as a Mainland Southeast Asian Language. In Anthony Grant and Paul Sidwell (eds.), Chamic and Beyond, 189-209. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.http://pioneer.netserv.chula.ac.th/~ppittaya/publications/moken05.pdf
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