Nyah Kur language

Spoken in

• Austro -Asiatic languages Mon-Khmer languages Mon - group Nyahkur

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Nyahkur ( Nyah Kur ) is an Austro- Asiatic language, which is spoken by descendants of the Mon in the northeast of present-day Thailand, Isaan, and in Central Thailand and whose speakers use the Thai script. The Mon settled to the 11th century in Isaan, before they were overrun by the Khmer and had most of them flee. They live in the Thai provinces of Phitsanulok, Nakhon Ratchasima, Chaiyaphum and Phetchabun.

The Speaker of the Nyahkur be in Thailand chao called bon ( Thai ชาว บน ). Nyahkur and the Mon language are the only two representatives of the Mon - branch of the Mon-Khmer languages; both have evolved independently for about a millennium, from the ancient Mon and are very closely related. Linguists discovered Nyahkur the beginning of the 20th century, but the connection with Mon was not recognized until about 70 years later.

The number of speakers of Nyahkur decreases rapidly, which is also on the Thaiisierung, which is operated by the Thai governments steadily. There are at least two dialects of the Phetchabun and Chaiyaphum of; Speakers from Chaiyaphum can understand those difficult from Phetchabun.