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Name: Moken

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Selung; Mawken; Basing; Selong; Salong; Salon; Chau Ko'

Spoken in: Myanmar, Thailand

Number of speakers: 7,000 in Myanmar (Johnstone 1993) (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 6000 (UNESCO)

Code: mwt

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Austronesian

Parent Subgroup: Moklen (mokn)

Child Dialects: Dung (mwt-dun) Ja-It (mwt-jal) L'be (mwt-lbe)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered

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