Monic languages

Monic
Geographic
distribution:
Indochina
Linguistic classification: Austro-Asiatic
Subdivisions:

The Monic languages are a branch of the Austro-Asiatic language family descended from the Old Monic language of the kingdom of Dvaravati in what is now central Thailand. The Nyahkur people continue directly from that kingdom, whereas the Mon are descendants of those who migrated to Pegu after the 11th century Khmer conquest of Dvaravati.

Contents

Classification

Sidwell (2009:114) proposes the following tree ("stammbaum") for Monic, synthesizing past classifications from Therapan L-Thongkum (1984) and Diffloth (1984).

See also

Mon–Khmer languages

References

Further reading

External links

"Monic" (lecture). Archived from the original on 2007-09-15. http://web.archive.org/web/20070915133208/http://www.anu.edu.au/~u9907217/languages/Monic.html. Retrieved 2007-09-21.