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Autonym: ဘာသာမန် [pʰesa mɑn]
Other Names: မွန်ဘာသာစကား (Burmese), ภาษามอญ (Thai)
Language Family: Austroasiatic
ISO 639: mnw (Modern Mon)
Speakers: 851,000 (total in all countries); spoken by the Mon people
Location: Southern Myanmar (Mon State, Kayin State, Tanintharyi Region), Thailand; recognized minority language in both countries.
Language Status: 5 (developing) in Myanmar, 6b (threatened) in Thailand
- Developing: "language is in vigorous use, with literature in a standardized form being used by some though this is not yet widespread or sustainable."
- Threatened: "language is used for face-to-face communication within all generations, but it is losing users."

SVO
Non-tonal (unlike Burmese and Thai)
Orthography: Mon-Burmese script (Mon alphabet)
Morphological Typology:
- primarily isolating with little to no inflectional morphology like many Austroasiatic languages. It does have some remnants of Old Mon's rich inflectional system, but those processes are no longer productive.

Sources Cited: Ethnologue (Mon), Wikipedia (Mon language)

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 * '''Orthography''': [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon%E2%80%93Burmese_script Mon-Burmese script (Mon alphabet)]
 * '''Morphological Typology''':
-** primarily isolating with little to no inflectional morphology
+** primarily isolating with little to no inflectional morphology like many Austroasiatic languages. It does have some remnants of Old Mon's rich inflectional system, but those processes are no longer productive.
 === Resources for Mon ===