User:Preth1/Language selection

Language & Partner Selection

I would like to work with Chung Sze Kwok, Nyvisalsnuk Rith, and/or Katelyn Becker!

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 other Austroasiatic languages. It does have some remnants of Old Mon's rich inflectional system, but those processes are no longer productive.

Here are some online resources I found for Mon:

Omniglot: contains a sample translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
A Short Introduction to the Mon Language: contains some basic words and phrases in Mon with glosses though only IPA is provided
The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages: contains a grammatical description of Modern Mon with some example sentences and glossed texts (I have a PDF copy)
Compiled resources by the Open Language Archives Community (OPAC) including a Mon translation of Genesis by The British and Foreign Bible Society, though there doesn't seem to be a corresponding translation

Sources Cited: Ethnologue (Mon), Wikipedia (Mon language), A Short Introduction to the Mon Language