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The modern Mon alphabet has several letters and diacritics that do not exist in Burmese, such as the stacking diacritic for medial 'l', which is placed underneath the letter. [8] There is a great deal of discrepancy between the written and spoken forms of Mon, with a single pronunciation capable of having several spellings. [9]
The Mon language (/ ˈ m oʊ n / ⓘ; Mon: ဘာသာမန်, [pʰesa mɑn]; Burmese: မွန်ဘာသာစကား listen ⓘ; Thai: ภาษามอญ listen ⓘ), formerly known as Peguan and Talaing, is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Mon people.
The Mon–Burmese script (Burmese: မွန်မြန်မာအက္ခရာ, listen ⓘ; Mon: အက္ခရ်မန်ဗၟာ, listen ⓘ, Thai: อักษรมอญพม่า, listen ⓘ; also called the Mon script, Old Mon script, and Burmese script) is an abugida that derives from the Pallava Grantha script of southern India and later of Southeast Asia.
The futhorc was a development from the older co-Germanic 24-character runic alphabet, known today as Elder Futhark, expanding to 28 characters in its older form and up to 34 characters in its younger form. In contemporary Scandinavia, the Elder Futhark developed into a shorter 16-character alphabet, today simply called Younger Futhark.
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The Tartessian or Southwestern script is typologically intermediate between a pure alphabet and the Paleohispanic full semi-syllabaries. Although the letter used to write a stop consonant was determined by the following vowel, as in a full semi-syllabary, the following vowel was also written, as in an alphabet. Some scholars treat Tartessian as ...
The term "Mon" (spelt မန် in Mon and မွန် in Burmese), which is synonymous with the Burmese word for 'noble,' [21] was likely derived from Old Mon "rmeñ" by way of Middle Mon "rman" (ရာမန်). [22] [17] The ethnonym "rmeñ" was first recorded in the Kyanzittha’s New Palace Inscription of AD 1102 in Myanmar. Derivatives ...
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