Endangered Languages Project - Mok

Mok

^{[aka Amok, Hsen-Hsum, Yā-āng Lawa]}

Classification: Austro-Asiatic

ALSO KNOWN AS		Amok, Hsen-Hsum, Yā-āng Lawa, i-Mok, Angku, Āng-kú, Tai Loi
CLASSIFICATION		Austro-Asiatic, Palaungic, East Palaungic, Angkuic
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		mqt
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Mok and Man Met [mml] are closely related, but they are not the same language.

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Information from: “East and Southeast Asia” (349-424) . David Bradley (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge

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Population uncertain

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Speakers have very low status locally.

PLACES: Burma; Laos; China

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Burma: eastern Shan State; Laos: Namtha Province

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Tai Loi means ‘hill Tai’ in local Tai languages. Scattered in northeastern Kengtung in the eastern Shan State, with one village near Kengtung town and some also further south and in extreme northwestern Namtha Province of Laos, and one village in Thailand. Also spoken in China, where it is included in the Bulang nationality (note that the Mok in China do not speak Bulang).

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
7
Native speakers worldwide

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
7
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1981

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
7
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from Wurm and Hattori (1981).

PLACES: Thailand

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
10,000
Native speakers worldwide

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Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing