The World Atlas of Language Structures Online

1. Family: Austro-Asiatic
2. Subfamily: Mon-Khmer
3. Genus: Monic

Mon

WALS coordinates: 14° 49′ 48.00″ N, 100° 30′ E

spoken in Thailand, Myanmar

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:	Mon
Ruhlen:	Mon
Routledge:
Other:	Mon (Burmese)
ISO 639-3:	mnw

Features

Feature	Value	References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology	Little affixation
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality	Plural word
Definite Articles	Definite word distinct from demonstrative
Position of Case Affixes	No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	No possessive affixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	No tense-aspect inflection
The Morphological Imperative	No second-person imperatives
The Prohibitive	Normal imperative + normal negative
Imperative-Hortative Systems	Neither type of system
The Optative	Inflectional optative absent
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	SVO
Order of Subject and Verb	SV
Order of Object and Verb	VO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun	Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun	Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Noun-Demonstrative
Order of Numeral and Noun	Noun-Numeral
Order of Degree Word and Adjective	Adjective-Degree word
Position of Polar Question Particles	Final
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions	Not initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause	Initial subordinator word
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	VO and Prepositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	VO and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects	Optional pronouns in subject position
Negative Morphemes	Negative word, unclear if verb or particle
Polar Questions	Question particle
Other
Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks	Other or none