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Name: Mon

Alternate Names: Talaing; Mun; Peguan; Taleng; Aleng; Takanoon; Ramañña; Peguanisch

Spoken in: Myanmar, Thailand

Number of speakers: 743,000 in Myanmar (2004). Population total all countries: 851,000 (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 800000 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 850530 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: mnw

Code Authority: ISO 639-3

Code Standard: SIL

Families: Austro-Asiatic

Parent Subgroup: Monic (moni)

Child Dialects: Pegu; Northern Mon; Mon Tang (mnw-peg) Mataban-Moulmein; Central Mon; Mon Te (mnw-mat) Ye; Southern Mon; Mon Nya (mnw-yex)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Vulnerable

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable

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