"Losing language is a loss of nation": transnational movement to preserve Mon scripts in Thailand.
Nowadays, over one million Mon-speaking people live in Mon communities of southeastern Myanmar, and the Mon descendants live in Thailand and across various nations. This paper examines the transnational movements among the Mons in Thailand, the oversea Mons and the Mon migrants from Myanmar to prese...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 25; no. 5; pp. 723 - 745 |
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Oct2024
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