The Mon people, who descended from Proto-Austroasiatic people, are believed to have migrated from the Yangtze Kiang valley in Southern China to Southeast Asia between 3,000 and 2,000 BCE, along the Mekong, Salween, Sittaung, Irrawaddy, Ping and Chao Phaya rivers.

Mon, people living in the eastern delta region of Myanmar (Burma) and in west-central Thailand, numbering in the early 21st century somewhere between one and five million, though less than a third speak the Mon language.

Also known as the Mun, Peguan, Talaing, Taleng, the Mon are the principal Burma branch of the Mon-Khmer ethnic group and the remnant of the first great civilization to dominate Southeast Asia.

The Mon people are an ethnic group. They live in the southeastern part of Myanmar, and in central and northern Thailand, and in Laos In Myanmar, they settle near the estuary of the Sittaung River and the Salween River. They can also be found in the Kanchanaburi province in Thailand, and the Greater Bangkok area. They usually speak the Mon ...

May 24, 2019 · The old Mon kingdoms were destroyed by the Burmese Kings’ troops in the past seven hundred years but the identity of the Mon people in two nations has been proof that the Mon civilization is re-merging in the contemporary world.

Feb 19, 2019 · The Mon political leaders campaigned to celebrate “National Day” with a traditional event of making Mon Cake or “Yar-hu” on the full moon day of Mide in the monastery while they recalled the history of the Mon people and the political situation of the country.

From the seventh to the ninth centuries A.D., Mon states dotted the coast of Burma and the Chao Phraya valley of Thailand. The Mons were politically subjugated during the First Burmese Empire (1044-1257), although culturally they still dominated the conquering Burmese people.

Jun 6, 2018 · The Mon are an indigenous people who live in what is today’s Myanmar. There are around 800,000 people of Mon ancestry in Myanmar and another 100,000 in Thailand. The Mon speak their own language, Mon, which is part of the Monic Mon-Khmer branch of the Austro-Asiatic family and is related to Vietnamese and Khmer.

The Mon people, who descended from Proto-Austroasiatic people, are believed to have migrated from the Yangtze Kiang valley in Southern China to Southeast Asia between 3,000 and 2,000 BCE, along the Mekong, Salween, Sittaung, Irrawaddy, Ping and Chao Phaya rivers.

Mon kingdom, kingdom of the Mon people, who were powerful in Myanmar (Burma) from the 9th to the 11th and from the 13th to the 16th century and for a brief period in the mid-18th century. The Mon migrated southward from western China and settled in the Chao Phraya River basin (of southern Thailand)