Moklen is an Austronesian language spoken on the western coast ofsouthern Thailand. It is related to but distinct from theMoken language of Myanmar and southern Thailand. Unlike Moken, it is not spoken in Myanmar.
Northern Moklen area (eight villages): located about 40 km (25 mi) from the main concentration of Jadiak Moken speakers inRanong Province, Thailand, ranging from the villages of Ko Phra Thɔɔng (เกาะพระทอง; inKhura Buri District) in the north to Baang Sak in the south. There is a high degree of interaction withMoken in the Ko Phra Thɔɔng area.
Central Moklen area (nine villages): from Paak Wiip (inTakua Pa District) to Hin Laat. The Baan Dɔɔn Can dialect is the variety mainly studied by Larish (1999,2005).
Southern Moklen area (three villages): northern tip ofPhuket Island.
Swastham (1982) describes the Moklen dialect of Lam Phi (ลำภี),Thai Mueang District,Phang Nga Province in southern Thailand. Other Moklen villages near Lam Phi listed bySwastham (1982) are, listed from north to south, Bang Sak, Khuk Khak, Bang Niang, Thung Maphraw, and Tha Chat Chai.
Bishop, N.; Peterson, M. M. (1987).A Preliminary Language Research Survey Report: The Moklen and Sakai Language Groups. Bangkok: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Larish, Michael (2005). "Moken and Moklen". In Adelaar, Alexander; Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. (eds.).The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Routledge. pp. 513–533.ISBN0-7007-1286-0.
Swastham, Pensiri (1982).A Description of Moklen: A Malayo-Polynesian Language in Thailand (MA thesis). Mahidol University.
Naw Say Bay (1995). "The Phonology of the Dung Dialect of Moken". In Bradley, D. (ed.).Papers in Southeast Asian Linguistics No. 13: Studies in Burmese Languages. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 193–205.doi:10.15144/PL-A83.193.ISBN0-85883-427-8.
