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Mon language

The Mon language is an Austroasiatic language spoken in Southeast Asia.

Table of contents

1.1 Consonants
1.2 Vowels
1.3 Intonation

2 External Links

Consonants

		Bilabial	Dental	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stops	Voiceless Unaspirated	p	t	[ty]	k	'
	Voiceless Aspirate	[ph]	[th]	[tyh]	[kh]
	Implosive	['b]	['d]
Fricatives			s	(S)*		h
Nasals		m	n	ñ	N
Liquids		w	l, r	y

[S] is only found in Burmese loans.

Vowels

i		u
e	^	o
E	*	O
	a

Intonation

High tone, voicing of vowel ordinary to creaky
Low tone, breathy vowel

External Links

Source: http://www.albany.edu/anthro/mon
Phonologies of other languages can be found at The Phonology Phreak's Gateway (http://pgdt.home.attbi.com/Phonology/)
Ethnologue report for Mon (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MNW)

Other information that should be added:

Most closely related languages
Location and number of speakers
Historical overview of Mon
Summarized overview of grammar

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