Contact Set Burmese - Mon

by Matias Jenny

How long have Focus Group and Neighbour Group people been in contact overall?

ca. 1000 years

What is the overall time frame when the largest number of people had the most opportunities for interaction?

the last 600-700 years

How long have Focus Group and Neighbour Group people practised exchange for?

1000 years.

Mon was seen as literary/high prestige language in Burmese Bagan around the 10th and 11th centuries, but there is no evidence of extended social interchange of the general population at that time

What is the time frame when the largest number of people had the most opportunities for interaction in exchange?

last 600-800 years.

changing patters of dominance alternating between Mon and Burmese superiority over the past 800 years in different areas of present-day lower Myanmar

How long have Focus Group and Neighbour Group peoples been forming families with each other for?

probably since at least the 13th century

What’s the time frame of densest contact between Focus Group and Neighbour Group as far as family formation is concerned?

since the 15th century

How long have Focus Group and Neighbour Group people been involved in the knowledge domain together for?

since the 10th century.

during the 10th/11th century, the Mon were dominant in culture and knowledge/religion

What is the time frame when the largest number of people had the most opportunities for interaction in the knowledge domain?

since 10th/11th century

How long have Focus Group people and Neighbour Group people worked together for?

since the 10th/11th century.

Mon elite as scholars at the Burmese kingdom of Bagan

What is the time frame when the largest number of people had the most opportunities for interaction in the labour domain?

since 13th century

How long have Focus Group and Neighbour Group people been in contact in the local community?

since about the 14th century

What is the time frame when the largest number of people had the most opportunities for interaction in the local community?

since 15th century

How long have Focus Group and Neighbour Group people traded for?

probably since the 10th century, perhaps even earlier

What is the time frame when the largest number of people had the most opportunities for interaction in trade?

since the 11th century

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