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| | THAI localization GUIDE [1] |
 | | This document assumes the reader is familiar with the localization process and the terminology associated with it. | | | However, companies such as Microsoft agree that Thai is perhaps the most troublesome language to localise into, and this document will perhaps shed some light as to why. | | | This document does not examine all the issues involved in Thai localization. |
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http://www.qtranslation.com/ttrans/english/thailoc1.htm
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| | AsiaFinest Discussion Forum -> What Specific Race Does The Khmer Belong To? |
| | Important language family having three subfamilies: Munda, spoken by several million people in eastern India; Nicobarese, with a few thousand speakers in the Nicobar Islands; and Mon-Khmer, divided into 12 branches with almost 100 languages spoken by some 35 to 45 million people in Southeast Asia. | | | If you look up images of the Santal (or Santali) people, you can really see some evidence of "the austroasiatic thesis." The migration they're associated with, however, is not very much more than 10,000 years ago... | | | and the Khmer lands were inhabited for about 40,000 years. |
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http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=4516
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| | Languages of India |
| | Some ethnic groups in Assam and other parts of eastern India speak languages of the Mon-Khmer group. | | | This is an evolution in a land of myriad dialects. | | | India also has some languages that do not have written forms. |
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http://indiansaga.com/languages
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| | Khmer language Online Research :: Information about Khmer language |
| | Khmer numerals, where were inherited from Indian numerals, are used more widely than Arabic numerals. | | | Dialect are sometimes quite marked; notable variations are found in speakers from Phnom Penh (the capital city), Battambang in the countryside and the northern dialects of Thailand (such as in Surin province). | | | Words can also be made up of two full syllables. |
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http://www.in-northcarolina.com/search/Khmer_language.html
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| | Some of these languages are spoken by only a few hundred people and are dying out unless something drastic happens to halt this state of affairs. | | | Many Chinese languages, grouped under Sinitic languages, are spoken in China and Taiwan and by Chinese immigrants in many nations. | | | The Tibeto-Burman languages have evolved from a common source in very different ways largely because of the movements of the various groups of people throughout central and southern Asia. |
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http://www.orient-tours.nl/2vietnaminsights/culture/language.html
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| | Khmer |
| | Khmer, or Cambodian, is spoken by some 7 million people and is the official Khmer belongs to the Mon-Khmer family of the Austroasiatic phylum. | | | Amazon.com: Books: Angkor: Celestial Temples of the Khmer by Jon Ortner,Ian W. Mabbett,James Goodman,Ian Mabbett,Eleanor Mannikka,John Sanday. | | | On April 17th, 1975 the Khmer Rouge, a communist guerrilla group led by Pol The Khmer Rouge killed people if they didn’t like them, if didn’t work |
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http://aliveinfo.com/?q=khmer
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| | Classification of Mon-Khmer languages |
| | Bahnaric: a large group of 30+ unwritten languages, reconstructions of its various sub-groups have appeared since the 1960s: Proto-North-Bahnaric by Smith (1972), South Bahnaric by Blood (1966), Efimov (1990), Sidwell (2000), and West Bahnaric by Jacq and Sidwell (2000). | | | Proto South Bahnaric: a reconstruction of a Mon-Khmer language of Indo-China. | | | Shafer's scheme advances things somewhat as he clearly treats the Aslian (his Sakaic) languages of Malaya as one group, and includes Vietnamese (Annam) in his study (grouped with Khmeric). |
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http://www.anu.edu.au/~u9907217/languages/AAlecture1.html
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| | My Directory Listing - Languages |
| | Elfling - Email list to further the scholarly study of the languages invented by JRR Tolkien and discuss the current | | | Jewish Translation - Find what you need right here at jewishtranslation.com, your portal to jewish tr | | | And the Whole Earth Was of One Language - Excerpts from a book about the ancient languages of Sumerian, Etruscan, |
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http://www.mydirectorylisting.com/Languages/Languages1.htm
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| | Austro-Asiatic languages Online Research :: Information about Austro-Asiatic languages |
| | However, no evidence for this classification has ever been published, and it remains speculative. | | | Ethnologue identifies 168 Austroasiatic languages, of which 147 are Mon-Khmer languages and 21 are Munda languages. | | | It is widely believed that the Austroasiatic languages are the Autochthonous languages of Southeast Asia and eastern India, and that the other languages of the region, including the Indo-European languages, Tai-Kadai languages, and Sino-Tibetan languages, are the result of later Human migration. |
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http://www.in-northcarolina.com/search/Austro_Asiatic_languages.html
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| | languagehat.com: Comment on SOWING LANGUAGES. |
| | What is this garbage about "languages cannot mix"? | | | However, for the most part, I would also guess that when one language replaced another that it was the case of one agriculturalist’s language replacing the language of another agricultural group. | | | This is usually explained by the fact they felt culturally inferior to native population, didn't really bring their own culture with them. |
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http://www.languagehat.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=579
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| | The Mon & Nyah Kur languages |
| | Three consonant onsets evidence massive simplification in Mon. | | | Once vowels became breathy, and voiced stops had devoiced, breathiness became phonemic. | | | Subsequently in Mon the length contrast was lost, and there was extensive diphthongisation, particularly a lowering of the onsets of high vowels in clear voice, and a raising of the onsets of low vowels in breathy voice, consistent with the overall trend for clear vowels to be lower than breathy vowels. |
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http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/stampe/AA-pj/AA-Sidwell/AAlecture3.html
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| | Spoken and Written Languages of Southeast Asia |
| | Counting is done with an extensive set of "count classifiers" | | | Many languages spoken by small groups of indigenous peoples (e.g. | | | Details, including a map of the 3 branches of the Tai language family, can be found at: http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Thai/LLF/profile.htm |
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http://www.seasite.niu.edu/crossroads/hartmann/hartmann.htm
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| | Austroasiatic Languages: Munda and Mon-Khmer |
| | Munda Lexical Archive, an ongoing copylefted archive most of the lexical materials available from the non-Kherwarian Munda languages, assembled by Patricia J. Donegan & David Stampe: (A current snapshot of the whole is available for download as a zip archive: munda-archive.zip) | | | Franklin Huffman's massive Bibliography and Index of Mainland SE Asian Languages and Linguistics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986), which includes Munda and the Indian language isolate Nihali input (through L, with some addenda and library locations) by David Stampe et al. | | | Working files of South Munda lexical data assembled by Stampe from collections of his and of Sudhibhushan Bhattacharya, Norman and Arlene Zide etymological for a seminar on Austroasiatic languages. |
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http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/faculty/stampe/aa.html
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| | in press (with Greg Aumann) Subgrouping of Mienic Languages: some observations. | | | 2000 Proto South Bahnaric: a reconstruction of a Mon-Khmer language of Indo-China. | | | Current Project: Research on the Mon-Khmer languages of Indo-China, supported by the |
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http://www.anu.edu.au/~u9907217/sidwell/Paulcv.html
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| | SOUTHEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 |
| | The Munda languages use affixes extensively and are agglutinative. | | | family of languages, sometimes also called Austroasiatic, spoken in SE Asia by about 80 million people. | | | A grouping together of the Malayo-Polynesian and Southeast Asian (or Austroasiatic) languages into a single Austric family has also been proposed on the basis of certain phonetic, lexical, and grammatical similarities, but this grouping has not yet been generally accepted. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/aol/65/st/SthEAslang.html
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| | ClayGate 494-495 : Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean, Dravidian, East Asian languages |
| | About.com : Chinese Language - Chats, forums, listservers, newsgroups | | | Altaic, Uralic, Hyperborean, Dravidian languages; Languages of East & Southeast Asia | | | Swinburne University of Technology : Asian Languages and Cultures |
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http://library.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au/irs/WEBCAT/494.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - Laos |
| | The Hmong (also known as the Meo or Miao) are the most numerous and politically influential of the Lao Sung. | | | Some of these languages are spoken by only a few thousand people. | | | As a state that nominally embraces Communism, with its opposition to religion, Laos has no official religion. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761551958_3/Laos.html
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| | Mon-Khmer languages -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The Khmer have a long history, of which the 12th-century temple complex of... | | | The Khmer are primarily an agricultural people who are concentrated in the central lowland and along the coast. | | | Mon-Khmer language spoken by most of the population of Cambodia, where it is the official language, and by some 1.3 million people in southeastern Thailand, and also by more than a million people in southern Vietnam. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9053296?tocId=9053296
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| | Sound system in Vietnamese |
| | It is reported that there are 54 official ethnic groups, 86 living languages, and 1 extinct language (Grimes 1996). | | | Various foreign influences have been brought to the development of the Vietnamese language because of the contacts in the past between the Vietnamese and other peoples. | | | Recently, Nung Ven and Xapho (or Laghuu), two languages in North Vietnam were discovered and reported by Edmondson’s research team. |
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http://www.de-han.org/vietnam/chuliau/lunsoat/sound
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| | The Khasis by P. R. T. Gurdon - Full Text Free Book (Part 5/5) |
| | languages of Indo-China that have been mentioned, which is to be seen | | | adverb at the right time is one of the niceties of the language. | | | a state of uncertainty as to what was the origin of these languages. |
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http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Khasis5.html
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| | Vietnam culture links to food information, ingredients and oriental history from asia |
| | In late 19th century, publications were published in the National language characters. | | | There have been many theories regarding the origin of the Vietnamese language. | | | The most widely spoken foreign languages in Vietnam are Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), English, French and Russian, more or less in that order. |
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http://asiarecipe.com/vieculture.html
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| | Free-CliffNotes.com - King Ramkhamhaeng |
| | Some of the groups that adopted these beliefs were the Mon of Myanmar who were the first people of Southeast Asia to adopt Buddhism. | | | Some had been officials or craftsmen at the Khmer royal court. | | | While Mon kingdoms were predominantly of Buddhist influence, Khmer civilization--which found its expression in the great temple at Angkor--was heavily influenced by the Hindu people of India. |
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http://www.free-cliffnotes.com/data/dd/hal220.shtml
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| | Classification of Mon-Khmer languages |
| | Generally MK languages show a strong tendency to assimilate sytactically to their areal neighbours. | | | The set of phonemes in MK languages can be quite large and have some unusual types of articulation in comparison to other languages of the world, including imploded and/or glottalised consonants, voiceless nasal and lateral sounds, and there may be tones or so-called ‘registers’, distinguishing breathy and/or creaky vowels. | | | Among these tongues we find the largest inventories of vowels of any language in the world, with some having dozens of monophthongs and diphthongs. |
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http://www.anu.edu.au/~u9907217/languages/languages.html
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| | Asian Languages by Countries |
| | 135 minority ethnic groups have their own languages. | | | note: Abkhaz is the official language in Abkhazia. | | | English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects |
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http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/asian_languages.htm
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| | Comparatively speaking, little historical work has been done, and the proto-languages of the family, the subfamilies, and most of the subfamily branches remain to be reconstructed. | | | Their western-most expansion is unknown, but some argue that it extended into modern Pakistan. | | | The Mon-Khmer languages are spoken in northeastern India, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, two provinces of southern China, and the Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean (as well as in emigrant communities in a number of other countries across the world). |
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http://home.att.net/~lvhayes/Langling/langpg4.htm
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| | Mon-Khmer talen |
| | This is the entry on Mon-Khmer languages in the Dutch encyclopaedia. | | | First there is a discussion of the Austroasiatic language family, to which the Mon-Khmer languages belong, and of Austroastiatic prehistory and the possible Austroastiatic Urheimat or proto-homeland. | | | Cross references are provided to the encyclopaedia's articles on Munda and Nicobarese languages. |
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http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/host/himalaya/abstracts/mkt.html
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| | Introduction to Sinitic-Vietnamese Studies - dchph |
| | As defined earlier, that sub-class confines only on those languages that were originally evolved from ancient languages of the Yue peoples, which are inherited and spoken by those those ethnic groups still living in the southern part of China, from which Vietnamese has emerged as a special case of total siniticization. | | | This is also the earliest record of the language of Vietnam. | | | For many other words in Thai (languages) which have Vietnamese correspondences were assumed by him as Austroasiatic loans, I find them cognate to those in Chinese. |
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http://vny2k.net/vny2k/SiniticVietnamese4.htm
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| | The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Austroasiatic |
| | Many linguists now consider this group to be a sub-branch of the Austroasiatic branch of the Austric family of languages. | | | Khmer is the national language of the country of Cambodia; it is also spoken in Vietnam and Thailand. | | | You have reached the page for Austroasiatic languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana. |
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http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/austroah.htm
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| | LINGUIST List 4.256: Grammar Shifts |
| | I was, however, most interested in any evidence of a language that had *reversed* this trend. | | | This makes it a head-marking language in the sense of Nichols ('Language', 1986) and results in much greater freedom of word order than exists in standard written French. | | | That is, gone from synthetic to analytic back towords synthetic (or some variation therof). |
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http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/4/4-256.html
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| | CRCL Associates |
| | He has done wide-ranging fieldwork in Vietnam, and Laos, and has an extensive record of teaching and publication on Mon-Khmer languages, including five books, with a particular focus on the reconstruction of the Bahnaric and Katuic families. | | | His research interests focus on the Tai languages, particularly the Shan-related languages found in the Assam region of Northeastern India, as well as Turung, long thought to be Tai-related, but actually a Tibeto-Burman language similar to Singpho, and spoken in the same region. | | | Dr Cooper has been closely associated with CRCL since its inception. |
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http://seasrc.th.net/crcl/assoc.htm
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| | MapZones.com : Vietnam Map |
| | Indian influence is found among the Cham and Khmer minorities. | | | The Cham, whose language belongs to the Austronesian language family, formed the majority population in the Indianized kingdom of Champa in what is now central Vietnam from the 2nd century to the late 15th century AD. | | | This system, known today as quoc ngu (national language), was the first to indicate tones through the use of accent marks. |
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http://atlas.mapzones.com/vietnam/vietnam.php
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| | THAI localization GUIDE [2] |
| | The truth is that a language-oriented person needs to check the final DTP proofs and then if there are some changes the areas surrounding the points where the changes were made need to be proofed yet again, because of the "snowballing" effects described in 1. | | | The Mon-Khmer family of languages includes Thai, Lao, Khmer, and Burmese and a few ethnic variations. | | | This works fine for English, Japanese and most languages. |
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http://www.qtranslation.com/ttrans/english/thailoc2.htm
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| | Mon-Khmer languages -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Bahnar in southern (A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia; achieved independence from France in 1949) Laos | | | Aslian in peninsular (A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957) Malaya, split into three groups, Jahaic, Senoic and Semelaic. | | | (The Mon-Khmer language spoken in Cambodia) Khmer (or Cambodian) in (A nation in southeastern Asia; was part of Indochina under French rule until 1946) Cambodia (7 million) |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/m/mo/mon-khmer_languages1.htm
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| | Vietnamese Online |
| | Throughout Vietnamese history and up to the present, the Vietnamese grew up speaking the dialect of the region in which they were born. | | | Vietnamese is the official language in Vietnam and is spoken by a large Vietnamese community around the world. | | | This online course is an personal attemp to introduce the very basic of Vietnamese language to English speaking community. |
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http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Campus/6336
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| | Welcome to Berkeley Linguistics |
| | Languages: Pulaar, Badiaranke, Bamana, Swahili, Italian, French, Hebrew | | | Languages: California American Indian Languages (especially Yurok), Maori, Hawaiian, African American Vernacular English and Hebrew. | | | Languages: Slavic and Turkic (esp. Russian and Uzbek). |
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http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/grad.html
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| | webbed feet, web log |
| | This program is an intensive four-week course in Khmer language and is made available to students and other interested people at the intermediate level or above. | | | From the point of view of historical linguistics, Mon-Khmer is a family of related languages which includes, besides Khmer and Mon, about 120 languages ranging from Assam to Yunnan, and all the way South to Malaysia. | | | They form 12 historical branches, 4 of which are represented in Cambodia. |
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http://jinja.apsara.org/blog/2003_02_01_older.htm
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| | Mon-Khmer languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Pearic is a remnant on the Cambodian coast. | | | The Mon-Khmer languages are the autochthonous languages of Indo-China. | | | Together with the Munda languages of India, they compose the Austroasiatic phylum of languages. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon-Khmer
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| | Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Languages: Natural: Austro-Asiatic: Mon-Khmer |
| | Khmer Inscription and Language · cached · Illustrated site devoted to early inscriptions in the Khmer language. | | | The Khmer Language · iweb · cached · Site devoted to the teaching of the Khmer alphabet and to basic notions of Khmer grammar, as well as containing a Khmer phrase book and links to Khmer dictionaries. | | | Rien Khmer · cached · A site devoted to the teaching of Khmer, with emphasis on the script, the phonology, and the numerals of the language. |
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http://www.incywincy.com/default?p=799158
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| | Euro-Mon Community |
| | I was aided in this by the distribution of the materials themselves: Old Mon inscriptions came to us from several geographically distinct kingdoms or states, which flourished during periods which are also quite distinct. | | | But, from what linguists know about Mon-Khmer languages, and languages general, it cannot be expected that the Old Mon spoken in the 6th century near Lopburi be indentical to that spoken in Bassein in the 14th. | | | Whether and how much these stages were linguistically differentiated is difficult to tell, given the distortions caused by orthography, and the scarcity of the materials. |
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http://www.eumon.org/inscriptions.php
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| | Online Burma Library > Main Library > Languages of Burma > Mon-Khmer Languages (Mon, Wa etc) |
| | Mon is a Mon-Khmer language which is spoken in Burma and Thailand. | | | A Dictionary of the Wa Language with English, Chinese, and Burmese (Myanmar) Glosses and Internet Database for Minority Languages of Burma (Myanmar) "...The SOAS Wa Dictionary Project is a three-year effort (2003-2006), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board to produce a high quality dictionary, translating Wa into Chinese, Burmese/Myanmar and English. | | | This website is an experimental hypertext grammar of the language, written by working with a native speaker of Mon, Min T. Naing, during a linguistics class at the University at Albany. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/show.php?cat=401
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| | Mon - Language Directory |
| | Mon is written in an Indic-based alphabet which is derived from Pali. | | | Mon-Khmer languages, along with Nicobarese and the Munda languages of India together form the Austroasiatic family. | | | © Copyright 2002-2004 Language Directory All Rights Reserved. |
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http://www.geocities.com/language_directory/languages/mon.htm
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| | Nicobarese |
| | The morphological similarities between Nicobarese languages and Austronesian languages have been used to help prove the Austric hypothesis. | | | Nicobarese is an isolated group of six closely related Mon-Khmer languages spoken in the Nicobar Islands of India. | | | The majority of Nicobarese speakers use the Car language. |
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http://www.usedaudiparts.com/search.php?title=Nicobarese
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| | Vietnam Languages - People |
| | This entry provides a rank ordering of languages starting with the largest and sometimes includes the percent of total population speaking that language. | | | Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) |
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http://www.indexmundi.com/vietnam/languages.html
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| | SIL Publications: F-00000-032 |
| | MON-KHMER STUDIES is a journal devoted to the study of Southeast Asian languages, especially those of the Mon-Khmer family. | | | "Assessing ethnolinguistic vitality: Theory and practice" from the ThirdInternational Language Assessment Conference, Horsleys Green, England,4-11 June 1997. | | | The journal is produced annually and welcomes articles or notes on any aspect of Mon-Khmer languages, or minority Southeast Asian languages, or other language families. |
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http://www.ethnologue.com/show_product.asp?isbn=F-00000-032
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| | Sound system in Vietnamese |
| | Mon-Khmer languages have usually been remarked upon for the linguistic category of register, which includes most prominently voice quality as a contrastive feature. | | | Although Vietnamese is not a classic register language, voice quality as well as pitch phenomena are both important in the tone system of Vietnamese (Edmondson 1997:1) There are six tones in modern northern Vietnamese, i.e. | | | They are composed of contours of pitch combined with certain other features of voice production (Thompson 1987:20). |
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http://www.de-han.org/vietnam/chuliau/lunsoat/sound/4.htm
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| | Mon-Khmer languages on Encyclopedia.com |
| | (mōn-kemâr´), group of languages frequently considered as a subfamily of the Southeast Asian family of languages. | | | Dancing the Main jo'oh: Hma' Btsisi' Celebrate Their Humanity and Religious Identity in a Malaysian World.(political symbolism) |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/X/X-M1onK1hmer.asp
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| | Carolyn P. Miller |
| | Language Survey and Kadazan language project, Malaysia (1978–1991) | | | 1989 Problems and possibilities in language standardisation: the case for the Kadazan/Dusun language. | | | 1996 "Application of typologies for language maintenance and loss to Southeast Asian linguistic minorities: the case of the Bru-So and Kadazan-Dusun language continua," Pan-Asiatics Lnguistics: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Languages and Linguistics, January 8–10, 1996. |
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http://www.sil.org/sil/roster/miller_carolyn.htm
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| | The Rosetta Project: the 1000 language archive |
| | Mon-Khmer languages for which the Rosetta database contains information: |
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http://www.rosettaproject.org:8080/live/search/browsebyfamilyresult?searchtype=family&searchkey=Mon-Khmer
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| | DHL: Corporate - Vietnam Demographics |
| | Vietnamese (official), French, Chinese, English, Khmer, tribal languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) |
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http://www.dhl.com/wrd/demog/vn.html
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