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 | | Mon is a member of a fairly large but much broken down and scattered family of languages, which extends (in detached fragments) from the extreme west of the Central Provinces of India through Assam and Indo-China right down into the Malay Peninsula. |
 | | The kings, both Burmese and Mon, seem to have indulged in a double nomenclature: an elaborate Indian name, sometimes of stupendous length, was used by them as their royal style, though they had shorter native names as well, by which (as a rule) they are known in the histories. |
 | | About the middle of that century the Mon area was much reduced by Burmese conquests, culminating in the total annexation of the Mon country to the Burmese kingdom of Pagan and the settlement of Tavoy and Southern Tenasserim by Burmese, who thus cut off the Mon race from their connexion with the more distant south. |
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