• 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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    women who speak the Moken language, a distinct Austronesian language. Attempts by both Myanmar and Thailand to assimilate the Moken into the wider regional...
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  • The Moklenic or Moken–Moklen languages consist of a pair of two closely related but distinct languages, namely Moken and Moklen. Larish (1999) establishes...
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  • 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...
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    (including Malagasy) Moken–Moklen Malayo-Chamic Chamic Malayic Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands (probably including the Enggano language) Rejang Lampung-Komering...
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    Ko Surin Tai. Within the Moken community, familial bonds are notably strong and reliable. Linguistically, the Moken language lacks terms for individual...
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    Riang Tai Loi Wa Mon Khamti Khün Tai Lue Tai Laing Tai Nuea Kedah Malay Moken Moklen Salone Standard Malay Hmong Nepali (Burmese Gurkha) Daingnet Rohingya...
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    88. Beik 89. Yaw 90. Yabein 91. Kadu (Kado) 92. Ganan 93. Salone (Salon; Moken) 94. Hpon Mon comprises 1 ethnic group 95. Mon Rakhine comprises 7 ethnic...
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    refuge, because it was almost impossible to control. For this reason, the Moken people found refuge here until the modern world intervened. The islands...
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  • Dayak Malayo-Chamic Malayic Chamic Sundanese Rejang Moken While Blust assumed that all languages of Borneo other than those in Greater Barito subgroup...
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  • Malay: Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that...
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    home to 51 living indigenous languages and 24 living non-indigenous languages, with the majority of people speaking languages of the Southwestern Tai family...
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    the Salones (Moken) and Pashus (Malays) migrated into Burma from the south and sea since prehistoric time. The Burmese call the Moken Selung, Salone...
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  • Moken may refer to: One of the Moken peoples Moklen language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Moklen. If an internal link...
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    tə-GAH-log; [tɐˈɡaːloɡ]; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the...
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    The Austronesian languages (/ˌɔːstrəˈniːʒən/) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia...
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    indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. It is a standardized variety of Malay, an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca...
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    University. Larish, Michael David. 1999. The Position of Moken and Moklen Within the Austronesian Language Family. Doctoral dissertation, University of Hawai'i...
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  • Njav is a Malakula language of Vanuatu. There are about 10 speakers. François et al. 2015. François, Alexandre; Franjieh, Michael; Lacrampe, Sébastien;...
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  • pronounced [ʔoːˈlɛlo həˈvɐjʔi]) is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiʻi...
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  • Caluyanon is a regional Western Bisayan language spoken in the Semirara Island Group, Caluya, Antique in the Philippines. Most of its speakers use either...
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  • Sora people Nicobarese people Shompen people Sri Lankan Malays Urak Lawoi Moken Badagas Brahui people Dongria Kondha Gondi people Irulas Kannadigas Khonds...
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    majority ethnic group in the southernmost three provinces, together with the Moken and Urak Lawoi ('sea gypsies'); and both groups of Hmong-Mien. Other ethnic...
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    idioma samareño meaning Samar language) is an Austronesian language and the fifth-most-spoken native regional language of the Philippines, native to Eastern...
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    The Malayic languages are a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family. The most prominent member is Malay, a pluricentric...
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  • Kutai is a Malayic language spoken by 300,000 to 500,000 people. It is the native language of the Kutai people (Indonesian: Suku Kutai, Kutai: Urang Kutai)[what...
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    The Formosan languages are a geographic grouping comprising the languages of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, all of which are Austronesian. They do not...
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  • schemes for Southeast Asian languages (see the articles for the respective language families). The five established major language families are: Austroasiatic...
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    western Java. It is the native language of more than 68 million people. Javanese is the largest of the Austronesian languages in number of native speakers...
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    approximately 450 Oceanic languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia, as well...
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