Moklen language explained

Moklen
Region:	Phang Nga Province, Ranong Province, and northern Phuket Island
States:	Thailand
Ethnicity:	Moklen
Date:	1984–2007
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Austronesian
Fam2:	Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:	Moklenic
Iso3:	mkm
Glotto:	mokl1243
Glottorefname:	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

lists three main Moklen areas in Thailand. Moklen is spoken mostly, but not exclusively, in Phang Nga Province. It is also spoken in Ranong Province and Phuket Island.

• Northern Moklen area (eight villages): located about 40km (30miles) from the main concentration of Jadiak Moken speakers in Ranong Province, Thailand, ranging from the villages of Ko Phra Thɔɔng (; in Khura Buri District) in the north to Baang Sak in the south. There is a high degree of interaction with Moken in the Ko Phra Thɔɔng area.
• Central Moklen area (nine villages): from Paak Wiip (in Takua Pa District) to Hin Laat. The Baan Dɔɔn Can dialect is the variety mainly studied by .
• Southern Moklen area (three villages): northern tip of Phuket Island.

describes the Moklen dialect of Lam Phi, Thai Mueang District, Phang Nga Province in southern Thailand. Other Moklen villages near Lam Phi listed by are, listed from north to south, Bang Sak, Khuk Khak, Bang Niang, Thung Maphraw, and Tha Chat Chai.

survey various Moklen dialects.

Works cited

• Book: Bishop, N. . A Preliminary Language Research Survey Report: The Moklen and Sakai Language Groups . Peterson . M. M. . 1987 . Summer Institute of Linguistics . Bangkok.
• Book: Larish, Michael . The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar . 2005 . Routledge . 0-7007-1286-0 . Adelaar . Alexander . London . en . Moken and Moklen . Himmelmann . Nikolaus P. . 513–533.
• Swastham . Pensiri . A Description of Moklen: A Malayo-Polynesian Language in Thailand . 1982 . MA . Mahidol University . en.

Further reading

• Book: Naw Say Bay . Papers in Southeast Asian Linguistics No. 13: Studies in Burmese Languages . 1995 . Pacific Linguistics . 10.15144/PL-A83.193 . free . 0-85883-427-8 . Bradley . D. . Canberra . 193–205 . en . The Phonology of the Dung Dialect of Moken.