Mon language

[Seastallion]

There is a crew of Mon working a construction site in my soi. The language is unintelligible to me, of course, but I have picked up two words;

Ow, and jow (ao and jao) meaning "come" and "go".

This is identical to Hindi.

As far as I know, Mon are south eastern Myanmar and not west, thus close to what was formally India.

Does anyone know if there is there any similarity between the Mon language and Hindi?

[pookiki]

Mon is in the Mon-Khmer language group. More similar to Khmer in regional languages.

[SeaVisionBurma]

Sure you would have read this, but might as well put the link anyway:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon-Khmer_languages

[Seastallion]

Sure you would have read this, but might as well put the link anyway:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon-Khmer_languages

Thanks.

"Genetic studies of representatives from all branches of Austroasiatic indicate the ancestors of Austroasiatic speakers originated in present-day India and migrated into Southeast Asia from the Brahmaputra River Valley"

No doubt there will be other similarities, aswell as the fact that the language is non-tonal.