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Mon-Khmer languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Mon-Khmer languages are the autochthonous languages of Indo-China. Together with the Munda languages of India, they compose the Austroasiatic phylum of languages. Khmer (or Cambodian) in Cambodia, southern Vietnam, and northeastern Thailand (15 to 22 million) en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mon-Khmer   (108 words)

Khmer language Online Research :: Information about Khmer language Khmer is somewhat unusual among its neighboring languages (Thai, Laotian and Vietnamese language) in that it is not a Tonal language. Khmer is primarily an Isolating language, but lexical Derivation (linguistics) by means of prefixes and infixes is common. Khmer is one of the main Austroasiatic languages. www.in-northcarolina.com /search/Khmer_language.html   (746 words)

Languages of India Some ethnic groups in Assam and other parts of eastern India speak languages of the Mon-Khmer group. Speakers of 20 Mon-Khmer languages and 98 Sino-Tibetan languages together make up about 2 per cent of the population. Languages of the Indo-European group are spoken mainly in northern and central regions. indiansaga.com /languages   (387 words)

SOUTHEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 Languages of the Mon-Khmer subfamily include Cambodian (or Khmer), Mon (or Talaing), and a number of other languages, such as Cham of Cambodia and southern Vietnam, Semang and Sakai of the Malay Peninsula, Nicobarese of the Nicobar Islands, and Khasi of Assam in India. The use of the term Southeast Asian languages in this article is based on linguistic considerations; however, the term is also employed by some scholars in a geographical sense to include three distinct language families of the region, namely, Malayo-Polynesian languages, Sino-Tibetan languages, and Mon-Khmer languages. According to one school of thought, it has three subfamilies: the Mon-Khmer languages, the Munda languages, and the Annamese-Muong subfamily. www.bartleby.com /aol/65/st/SthEAslang.html   (475 words)

Vietnam culture links to food information, ingredients and oriental history from asia The Vietnamese language (kinh) is a hybrid of Mon-Khmer, Tai and Chinese elements with many of its basic words derived from the monotonic Mon-Khmer languages. In the present-day Vietnamese language, many words have been proved to contain Mon-Khmer roots and to be phonetically and semantically relevant to the Muong language. The Vietnamese language is characterized by mono-phonology with a concrete, abundant, acoustic and imaginary vocabulary and a proportionate, rhythmical, lively, flexible, symbolic and emotional way of expression, which tremendously facilitates artistic and literary creation. asiarecipe.com /vieculture.html   (5772 words)

languagehat.com: Comment on SOWING LANGUAGES. And the last theory I heard about Japanese was that it might well have started as a creole of Austronesian languages moving north from Taiwan and proto-Korean (and/or Altaic) speakers moving in from mainland Asia, although I remember being told that that was impossible to demonstrate on linguistic grounds alone. What is this garbage about "languages cannot mix"? Languages are spread by nomadic and/or conquering people. www.languagehat.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=579   (1346 words)

Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Languages: Natural: Austro-Asiatic: Mon-Khmer Mon-Khmer Languages  · cached · Overview of the characteristics of the Mon-Khmer languages. Mon-Khmer Word Order from a Crosslinguistic Perspective  · cached · Paper by Matthew S. Dryer arguing that the assumption that languages tend to be consistently head-initial or head-final is not true, and that verb-object order does not exhibit crosslinguistic correlation with the order of various kinds of modifiers. The Khmer Language  · iweb · cached · Site devoted to the teaching of the Khmer alphabet and to basic notions of Khmer grammar, as well as containing a Khmer phrase book and links to Khmer dictionaries. www.incywincy.com /default?p=799158   (175 words)

Classification of Mon-Khmer languages The Mon-Khmer languages of SEAsia, together with the Munda languages of India, form the Austroasiatic Family, an ancient stock that dominated before the colonisation of the region by Thais, Burmese, Malays and Indo-Aryans. Structurally Mon-Khmer languages tend to have 'sesquisyllablic' word structure. Munda languages of India are more distantly related to Mon-Khmer, all together forming the Austroasiatic family. www.anu.edu.au /~u9907217/languages/languages.html   (852 words)

Austro-Asiatic languages Online Research :: Information about Austro-Asiatic languages Ethnologue identifies 168 Austroasiatic languages, of which 147 are Mon-Khmer languages and 21 are Munda languages. It is widely believed that the Austroasiatic languages are the Autochthonous languages of Southeast Asia and eastern India, and that the other languages of the region, including the Indo-European languages, Tai-Kadai languages, and Sino-Tibetan languages, are the result of later Human migration. Bahnaric languages (40 languages) of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. www.in-northcarolina.com /search/Austro_Asiatic_languages.html   (389 words)

Classification of Mon-Khmer languages In particular his placement of Munda close to Khmer and its neighbours was an artifact of his treatment of the Indic influence in these languages—once Indic borrowings are removed from the comparison we find that these languages have only common AA lexicon in common with Munda. An important feature of this classification is that Pinnow identifies a Mon-Khmer group consisting of 10 languages/groups of languages that are today recognised as Monic, Khmeric, Pearic, Bahnaric and Katuic (all geographically contiguous and under Indic influence in ancient times). In the case of written Mon and Khmer, the spellings preserve ancient distinctions among oral-stop series that have since chaged, and the spellings of vowels also reflect earlier simpler systems that preceeded innovations that are connected with changes in the consonants. www.anu.edu.au /~u9907217/languages/AAlecture1.html   (4114 words)

MSN Encarta - Laos The indigenous languages of Laos fall into four major groups: the Daic or Tai-Kadai languages, Mon-Khmer (a subgroup of the Austro-Asiatic languages family), Tibeto-Burman (a subgroup of the Sino-Tibetan languages family), and Hmong-Mien. A number of the languages and dialects spoken in Laos have never been properly studied by linguists. The Hmong (also known as the Meo or Miao) are the most numerous and politically influential of the Lao Sung. encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761551958_3/Laos.html   (1305 words)

language.html Vietnamese, Khmer, and Mon are culturally the most dominant of these languages and are also the oldest on record. The Tibeto-Burman languages have evolved from a common source in very different ways largely because of the movements of the various groups of people throughout central and southern Asia. Tibeto-Burman languages are spoken in Tibet, Burma, Nepal and throughout the Himalayan Mountain region. www.orient-tours.nl /2vietnaminsights/culture/language.html   (895 words)

Sound system in Vietnamese Among the Mon-Khmer languages, Vietnamese is the largest and the most well known. However, at present it is widely believed that Vietnamese belongs to the Mon-Khmer language family, which is spoken throughout much of Southeast Asia, primarily in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia, but also in Thailand, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, and the Nicobar Islands in the Andaman Sea (Ruhlen 1987:148). Recently, Nung Ven and Xapho (or Laghuu), two languages in North Vietnam were discovered and reported by Edmondson’s research team. www.de-han.org /vietnam/chuliau/lunsoat/sound   (959 words)

Sound system in Vietnamese Mon-Khmer languages have usually been remarked upon for the linguistic category of register, which includes most prominently voice quality as a contrastive feature. Although Vietnamese is not a classic register language, voice quality as well as pitch phenomena are both important in the tone system of Vietnamese (Edmondson 1997:1) There are six tones in modern northern Vietnamese, i.e. Influence of old Chinese on the Vietnamese language. www.de-han.org /vietnam/chuliau/lunsoat/sound/4.htm   (1000 words)

langpg4 The Mon-Khmer languages are spoken in northeastern India, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, two provinces of southern China, and the Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean (as well as in emigrant communities in a number of other countries across the world). As a result of such incursions, few nation states ever developed in the AA domain, the Khmer, Mon, and Vietnamese empires being the exceptions, and most of the AA speakers have lived and still live in small tribal groups. All of these events had an impact on the AA languages, and for that reason, these languages exhibit an uncommon diversity that makes tracing their diachronic development extremely difficult. home.att.net /~lvhayes/Langling/langpg4.htm   (723 words)

MapZones.com : Vietnam Map The Khmer (Cambodians), whose language is one of the Mon-Khmer languages, are scattered throughout the Mekong delta. Indian influence is found among the Cham and Khmer minorities. Like Chinese, Vietnamese is a tonal language, but its syntax is closer to Khmer, the official language of Cambodia. atlas.mapzones.com /vietnam/vietnam.php   (2348 words)

Mon-Khmer languages -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article The Mon-Khmer (A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols) languages are the autochthonous languages of (Click link for more info and facts about Indo-China) Indo-China. Mon-Khmer languages -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (The Mon-Khmer language spoken in Cambodia) Khmer (or Cambodian) in (A nation in southeastern Asia; was part of Indochina under French rule until 1946) Cambodia (7 million) www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/mon-khmer_languages1.htm   (352 words)

SIL Publications: F-00000-032 MON-KHMER STUDIES is a journal devoted to the study of Southeast Asian languages, especially those of the Mon-Khmer family. China's Mon-Khmer languages and the Austroasiatic language family The journal is produced annually and welcomes articles or notes on any aspect of Mon-Khmer languages, or minority Southeast Asian languages, or other language families. www.ethnologue.com /show_product.asp?isbn=F-00000-032   (209 words)

Online Burma Library > Main Library > Languages of Burma > Mon-Khmer Languages (Mon, Wa etc) Mon is a Mon-Khmer language which is spoken in Burma and Thailand. A Dictionary of the Wa Language with English, Chinese, and Burmese (Myanmar) Glosses and Internet Database for Minority Languages of Burma (Myanmar) "...The SOAS Wa Dictionary Project is a three-year effort (2003-2006), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board to produce a high quality dictionary, translating Wa into Chinese, Burmese/Myanmar and English. This website is an experimental hypertext grammar of the language, written by working with a native speaker of Mon, Min T. Naing, during a linguistics class at the University at Albany. www.ibiblio.org /obl/show.php?cat=401   (149 words)

The Mon & Nyah Kur languages Subsequently in Mon the length contrast was lost, and there was extensive diphthongisation, particularly a lowering of the onsets of high vowels in clear voice, and a raising of the onsets of low vowels in breathy voice, consistent with the overall trend for clear vowels to be lower than breathy vowels. Outwardly there is little but their language to distinguish them from other Thai villagers, and they have no tradition of being related to the Mon or descended from Dvaravati. In Early Mon the voiced stops became devoiced and merged with the voiceless series, while in Early Nyah Kur the voiced stops devoiced and became aspirated, merging with the aspirated series. www.ling.hawaii.edu /faculty/stampe/AA-pj/AA-Sidwell/AAlecture3.html   (1838 words)

Mon - Language Directory Mon-Khmer languages, along with Nicobarese and the Munda languages of India together form the Austroasiatic family. The best known linguistic cousins of Mon are Khmer (Cambodian) and Vietnamese. Mon is written in an Indic-based alphabet which is derived from Pali. www.geocities.com /language_directory/languages/mon.htm   (74 words)

The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Austroasiatic Languages on this page so far are Chrau, Khmer, Mon Khmer Languages, Temiar, and Vietnamese. You have reached the page for Austroasiatic languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana. Khmer is the national language of the country of Cambodia; it is also spoken in Vietnam and Thailand. www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/austroah.htm   (671 words)

Mon-Khmer languages --  Encyclopædia Britannica More than 200 languages are spoken, many of which belong to three widespread language families—Sino-Tibetan, Mon-Khmer, and Austronesian. Their language, also called Khmer, belongs to the Mon-Khmer group of Austroasiatic languages (see language, “Kinds of Language”). More results on "Mon-Khmer languages" when you join. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9053296?tocId=9053296   (759 words)

Mon-Khmer talen This is the entry on Mon-Khmer languages in the Dutch encyclopaedia. First there is a discussion of the Austroasiatic language family, to which the Mon-Khmer languages belong, and of Austroastiatic prehistory and the possible Austroastiatic Urheimat or proto-homeland. A synopsis is given of Mon-Khmer languages and subgroups and their geographical distribution. iias.leidenuniv.nl /host/himalaya/abstracts/mkt.html   (80 words)

CRCL Associates His research interests include Burmese language and modern literature, descriptive and historical linguistics of Mon-Khmer and Tibeto-Burman languages, tone and register languages, experimental, acoustic and practical phonetics, computer lexicography, and literary translation. He has done wide-ranging fieldwork in Vietnam, and Laos, and has an extensive record of teaching and publication on Mon-Khmer languages, including five books, with a particular focus on the reconstruction of the Bahnaric and Katuic families. His research interests focus on the Tai languages, particularly the Shan-related languages found in the Assam region of Northeastern India, as well as Turung, long thought to be Tai-related, but actually a Tibeto-Burman language similar to Singpho, and spoken in the same region. seasrc.th.net /crcl/assoc.htm   (776 words)

Free-CliffNotes.com - King Ramkhamhaeng While Mon kingdoms were predominantly of Buddhist influence, Khmer civilization--which found its expression in the great temple at Angkor--was heavily influenced by the Hindu people of India. Between the 9th and 13th centuries, Khmer rulers expanded their civilizations from their capital of Angkor, establishing an empire that at its height, extended over approximately half of modern Thailand. From them, Ayutthaya's rulers adopted many Hindu practices that had been followed by the Khmer, including the concept of the ruler as god-king or devaraja. www.free-cliffnotes.com /data/dd/hal220.shtml   (1865 words)

Introduction to Sinitic-Vietnamese Studies - dchph Austroasiatic languages, according to Norman (1988), “are spoken over a vast geographic range: the Munda languages in northwestern India, Khasi in Assam, Palaung-Wa and Mon in Burma, the Mon-Khmer languages in Indo-China, Vietnamese and Muong in Vietnam [...] and were once spoken much more widely in China.” (pp. That is true in the context that languages are not fossilized and constantly in dynamic change to evolve from primitive to sophisticated stages, especially for those that must have undergone drastic change from toneless consonantal clusters to tonal system to differentiate meanings, in this case, monosyllabic ancient Chinese. As defined earlier, that sub-class confines only on those languages that were originally evolved from ancient languages of the Yue peoples, which are inherited and spoken by those those ethnic groups still living in the southern part of China, from which Vietnamese has emerged as a special case of total siniticization. vny2k.net /vny2k/SiniticVietnamese4.htm   (13354 words)

Vietnamese Online The Vietnamese language is a hybrid of Mon-Khmer, Thai and Chinese elements with many of its basic words derived from the monotonic Mon-Khmer languages. Vietnamese is the official language in Vietnam and is spoken by a large Vietnamese community around the world. They differ mainly in pronunciation and in the use of some specific phrases.  The Northern and Southern pronunciation are considered as official pronunciation of the Vietnamese language. www.geocities.com /CollegePark/Campus/6336   (168 words)

AsiaFinest Discussion Forum -> What Specific Race Does The Khmer Belong To? Among Mon-Khmer languages are Khmer, the national language of Cambodia; Mon, a closely related language spoken in parts of Burma and Thailand; and Vietnamese. Important language family having three subfamilies: Munda, spoken by several million people in eastern India; Nicobarese, with a few thousand speakers in the Nicobar Islands; and Mon-Khmer, divided into 12 branches with almost 100 languages spoken by some 35 to 45 million people in Southeast Asia. In Anthropolgy classification I use to think the Mon-Khmer was a sub-group of the Mongoloid group since in anthropology there is only Negrozoid, Caucazoid, and Mongoloid main group. www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=4516   (1059 words)

Khmer Overview of the characteristics of the Mon-Khmer languages. Khmer, or Cambodian, is spoken by some 7 million people and is the official Khmer belongs to the Mon-Khmer family of the Austroasiatic phylum. Khmer in der Schweiz (Khmer, Cambodia, Kambodscha, Watt Khmer, Khmère) aliveinfo.com /?q=khmer   (501 words)

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