Eurasia · ISO 639-3 mwt · Glottocode moke1242
Moken
The sources list Moken with shifting status, classification as a member of the Austronesian family, and Myanmar as its likely script.
- Language family
- Austronesian
- Likely script
- Myanmar (Mymr)
- Source status
- shifting
- Macroarea
- Eurasia
- Source country codes
- MM · TH
- Reference point
- 10.147, 98.677
Open research question
How do speakers of Moken describe their varieties, relationships to place, and priorities for documentation or revitalisation?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.