Nyah Kur language

Nyah Kur
ญัฮกุร
Native toThailand
Native speakers
1,500 (2006)[1]
Early form
Dialects
  • Chaiyaphum
  • Petchabun
Thai script
Language codes
ISO 639-3cbn
Glottolognyah1250
ELPNyahkur
Monic languages distribution in Thailand and Myanmar where Nyah Kur is denoted by blue area.

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.