Mok, also known as Amok,OLAC Resources in and about the Mok Language, www.language-archives.org/language.php/mqt. Hsen-Hsum, and Muak, is a possibly extinct Angkuic language spoken in

Shan State Shan State ( my, ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်, ; shn, မိူင်းတႆး, italics=no) also known by the endonyms Shanland, Muang Tai, and Tailong, is a state of Myanmar. Shan State borders China (Yunnan) to the north, Laos ( L ...

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

and in Lampang Province,

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is b ...

. In Lampang, 7 speakers were reported by Wurm & Hattori (1981).

Varieties

Hall & Devereux (2018) report that five varieties of Mok are spoken in

, providing the following comparative vocabulary table.Hall, Elizabeth and Shane Devereux (2018). ''Preliminary Mok Phonology and Implications for Angkuic Sound Change.'' Paper presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, held May 17-19, 2018 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. These varieties have some lexical similarity (the lowest being 88%) with each other, but very low lexical similarity with the other Angkuic languages.Phakawee Tannumsaeng (2020). ''A Preliminary Grammar of Mok, Hwe Koi Variety, Chiang Rai, With Special Focus on the Anaphoric Use of tɤ́ʔ''. Payap University. Owen (2018) dubs these varieties Hwe Law, Chieng Kham, Pha Lam, Punglong, and Hwe Koi.

Geographic distribution

Tannumsaeng (2020) describes three locations for Mok: between Mong Khet and

Mong Yang Mongyang or Möngyang ( my, မိုးညှင်း, translit=Mohnyin; also known as Mong Yang)(Thai:เมืองยาง) was a Shan state in what is today Burma. It was an outlying territory, located away from the main Shan State are ...

and south of Kengtung in

, and on the Thai-Burmese border in Chiang Rai Province,

Phonology

Tannumsaeng (2020), citing Hall & Devereux (2018), provides the following

phonology Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...

for Mok. The

consonants In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract. Examples are and pronounced with the lips; and pronounced with the front of the tongue; and pronounced w ...

are /pʰ p m f w tʰ t n s l r c ɲ j kʰ k ŋ ʔ h/, with reduced /m̩ n̩ ɲ̩ ŋ̩ pə tə kə sə/. /f/ and /r/ only appear in certain varieties. The

vowels A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Vowels are one of the two principal classes of speech sounds, the other being the consonant. Vowels vary in quality, in loudness and also in quantity (l ...

are /i e ɛ u ɯ o ɤ ɔ a/, with the

diphthongs A diphthong ( ; , ), also known as a gliding vowel, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable. Technically, a diphthong is a vowel with two different targets: that is, the tongue (and/or other parts of the speech ...

/ia ɯa ua/. Mok has two tones, one low and one high.

References and notes

External links

RWAAI
(Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage) * http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-9671-C@view Mok in RWAAI Digital Archive {{Austroasiatic languages Palaungic languages Endangered Austroasiatic languages

Varieties

Geographic distribution

Phonology

References and notes

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