Ten'edn, also known as Mos in Thailand and Tonga-Mos or just Tonga in some literature, is an aboriginal
Mon–Khmer language
The Austroasiatic languages , , are a large language family in Mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia. These languages are scattered throughout parts of Thailand, Laos, India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Nepal, and southern China and are th ...
spoken by the
Maniq tribe of Thailand and Malaysia.
According to Benjamin (2012), Maniq (Məniʔ, Maniʔ) can refer to the following three or more speech varieties:
*Tonga' (Toŋaʔ)
*Mos (Mɔs)
*Teanean (Ten'en, Tɛnʔɛn, Tean-ean)
Sample vocabulary
Here are some odour terms in Maniq:
See also
*
Jahai language
Jahai (Jehai) is an aboriginal Mon–Khmer language spoken by the Jahai people living in the montane rainforests of northern Peninsular Malaysia and southernmost Thailand. It is the largest Northern Aslian language. Though spoken by only a li ...
References
Sources
*
*
External links
*http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)
*
http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-66FA-7@view Maniq in RWAAI Digital Archive
{{AustroAsiatic-lang-stub
Languages of Malaysia
Languages of Thailand
Aslian languages