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Nyah Kur
ญัฮกุร
Native toThailand
Native speakers
1,500 (2006)[1]
Language family
Austroasiatic
  • Monic
    • Nyah Kur
Early form
Old Mon
Dialects
  • Chaiyaphum
  • Petchabun
Writing system
Thai script
Language codes
ISO 639-3cbn
Glottolognyah1250
ELPNyahkur

The Nyah Kur language, also called Chao-bon (Thai: ชาวบน), is an Austroasiatic language spoken by remnants of the Mon people of Dvaravati, the Nyah Kur people, who live in present-day Thailand. Nyah Kur shares 69% lexical similarity with Mon, the only other language in the Monic language family.[2]

  1. ^ Nyah Kur at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "Myanmar". Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-10-10.

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