Moklen language
| Moklen | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Phuket Island |
| Ethnicity | Moklen |
Native speakers | (2,000 cited 1984–2007)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mkm |
| Glottolog | mokl1243 |
| ELP | Moklen |
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.
Dialects
Phuket Island
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- Northern Moklen area (eight villages): located about 40 km (25 mi) from the main concentration of Jadiak Moken speakers in Khura Buri District) in the north to Baang Sak in the south. There is a high degree of interaction with Mokenin the Ko Phra Thɔɔng area.
- Central Moklen area (nine villages): from Paak Wiip (in ).
- Southern Moklen area (three villages): northern tip of Phuket Island.
Phang Nga Province in southern Thailand. Other Moklen villages near Lam Phi listed by Swastham (1982)
are, listed from north to south, Bang Sak, Khuk Khak, Bang Niang, Thung Maphraw, and Tha Chat Chai.
Bishop & Peterson (1987) survey various Moklen dialects.
References
- ^ Moklen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Works cited
- Bishop, N.; Peterson, M. M. (1987). A Preliminary Language Research Survey Report: The Moklen and Sakai Language Groups. Bangkok: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
- Larish, Michael (2005). "Moken and Moklen". In Adelaar, Alexander; Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. (eds.). The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Routledge. pp. 513–533. ISBN 0-7007-1286-0.
- Swastham, Pensiri (1982). A Description of Moklen: A Malayo-Polynesian Language in Thailand (MA thesis). Mahidol University.
Further reading
- Naw Say Bay (1995). "The Phonology of the Dung Dialect of Moken". In Bradley, D. (ed.). Papers in Southeast Asian Linguistics No. 13: Studies in Burmese Languages. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 193–205. ISBN 0-85883-427-8.
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