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Moken language. Moken is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by inhabitants in southern Myanmar and Southern Thailand, who refer to themselves as Moken (people) and Mawken. [2] Classification. The language is closely related to the Moklen language, and can be mistaken to be similar to Urak Lawoi' but is in actuality distantly related. [2] .
An oral language, Moken is a Malayo-Polynesian language formed after the migration of the Austronesians from Taiwan 5,000–6,000 years ago, resulting in the development of this Austronesian language.
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The Moken People. The group of people referred to as “Moken” are actually three distinct tribes living along the Andaman Coast of Burma and Thailand – the Moken of the Mergui archipelago, the Moklen of Phang Nga province, and the Urak Lawoi living from Phuket southward to Satun.
Moken speak a Malay-based language and were given a written language by missionaries. They have little interest in writing and generally can’t write Burmese. Their religion is tied to their myths about their origins and the sea.
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.
Use faceted search to explore resources for Moken language. Language descriptions. ONLINE Glottolog 5.0 Resources for Moken. n.a. 2024. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. oai:glottolog.org:moke1242; ONLINE PHOIBLE 2.0 phonemic inventories for Moken. n.a. 2019. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
