Mon

1. A member of a Buddhist people inhabiting an area of eastern Myanmar (Burma) and adjacent parts of Thailand.
2. The Mon-Khmer language of the Mon.

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A people indigenous to south east Asia, also formerly referred to as the Talaing, who established some of the earliest urban centres in the region of lower Burma, the Chao Phraya delta and north-eastern plateau of Siam (now Thailand). The Mons were one of the earliest literate peoples in the region and the Mon language is one of the earliest recorded vernaculars along with Pyu (now extinct), Cham, and Khmer. The language was written in the Indian Pallava script, and Sanskrit and Pāli were also in use. The Theravāda form of Buddhism was present among the Mon and Pyu people from the 5^th century, and perhaps earlier. The first datable archaeological finds of the Mon civilisation stem from the Mon kingdom of Dvāravatī in the south of Thailand. They consist of a Roman oil lamp and a bronze statue of the Buddha which are believed to be no later than the 1st or 2nd century ce. The Chinese Buddhist pilgrim, Hsüan-tsang, who travelled to India in about 630 ad, describes a single Mon country stretching from Prome to Chenla in the east and including the Irrawaddy and Sittang deltas. The Mons were influential in Siam until the 13th century when they were eclipsed by the rise of Chiang Mai and other Tai states, although they remained a political force in Burma until the 18th century. Today the Mons have no independent political status and the Mon language is dying out.

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Mon may refer to:

Places:

• Mon State, a subdivision of Burma
• Mon, India, a town in Nagaland
• Mon District, Nagaland, India
• Mon, Switzerland, a village in the Grisons
• Anglesey or Môn, an island and county of Wales
• Møn, an island of Denmark
• Monreale, a city in Sicily, Italy
• The Monongahela River of North America

Peoples and languages:

• The Mon people of Southeast Asia
• The Monpa, an ethnic group of Tibetan origin
• The Mon language (of the Mon people)
• The Mon-Khmer languages, an Indochinese language family

Other:

• Mon (crest), Japanese family heraldic symbols
• Mons veneris, the pubic mound
• Monarch Airlines - IATA code for this UK airline
• Japanese mon (currency), a currency used in Japan until 1870
• The Gate (Mon (門^?)), a 1910 novel by Natsume Soseki
• The Mon Calamari (race), fictional amphibious humanoids in Star Wars

As an abbreviation:

• the IOC country code for Monaco
• Member of the Order of the Niger, a Nigerian national honour
• Miscellaneous Organic NESHAP, a US pollution-control standard
• Mixed Oxides of Nitrogen, a type of chemical solution
• Monarch Airlines - UK airline
• Monday, a day of the week
• Monmouthshire, a Welsh county
  • The former Welsh county of Monmouth
• Monoceros, a constellation (group of stars)
• Monon Railroad, a former US railway company
• Monsanto Company genetically modified crops, e.g. MON 810
• Motor octane number, an octane rating for petrol/gasoline

See also

• Japanese mon (disambiguation)
• 文 (disambiguation)‎

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