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- Moken is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by inhabitants in southern Myanmar and Southern Thailand, who refer to themselves as Moken (people) and Mawken.
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Moklen is an Austronesian language spoken on the western coast of southern Thailand. It is related to but distinct from the Moken language of Myanmar and southern Thailand. Unlike Moken, it is not spoken in Myanmar.
Aug 24, 2022 · Idun-Awda: an insight to Moklen people, language, and culture. 2022. While many Thai Buddhists are committing the light waving ceremony under the waning moon in the third lunar month, hundreds of Moklen people, one of the ethnic fishermen groups in the southern Thailand gather together at a small beach located in the north of Phuket, eat, drink ...
Moklenic (Moken plus Moklen) is now thought to constitute a top-level division within the Malayo-Polynesian subfamily of Austronesian. Its ancestral language must therefore have been established in the region by 3500 years ago, at least 1000 years before the arrival there of the Malayo-Chamic languages.
- Geoffrey Benjamin
Documentation of Moklenic languages. Moken and Moklen are languages spoken by two of Thailand’s three “Sea Peoples” groups, with speakers located along the coast of the southern Thai peninsula. As one of the few Austronesian subgroups of Mainland Southeast Asia, Moklenic languages serve as an additional example of the linguistic diversity ...
Jan 16, 2009 · The sea nomads of Southeast Asia (SEA) are divided linguistically, culturally and geographically into three groups: the Moken and the related Moklen, the Orang Suku Laut (literally, the ‘Tribe...
- Kelsey Needham Dancause, Chim W Chan, Narumon Hinshiranan Arunotai, J Koji Lum
- 2009
eBook ISBN 9780429236426. ABSTRACT. The Moken and Moklen are two closely related – yet culturally and linguistically distinct – groups of Austronesian people, who live along the rivers, beaches, and islands on the West Coast of the Thai-Malay Peninsula.
