Mon-Knmer Studies is a journal devoted to the study of Southeast Asian languages, especially those of the Mon-Khmer family. The journal is produced annually and welcomes articles or notes on any aspect of Mon-Khmer languages, or minority Southeast Asian languages, or other language families. Topics of articles may include linguistic description, comparison, bibliography, historical development, sociolinguistics, stylistics, orthographies, or paleographic aspects.

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Articles Suwilai Premsrirat Register complex and tonogenesis in Khmu dialects

Kari Jordan-Diller and Jason Diller The Prai of Northern Thailand: a sociolinguistic survey of a Mon-Khmer language

Jerold A. Edmondson, John H. Esling, Jimmy G. Harris, and James Wei A phonetic study of the Sui consonants and vowels

Isara Choosri Chaak and Other Chong place names: linguistic remains of a Mon-Khmer people in Eastern Thailand

Toshiki Osada A historical note on inclusive/exclusive opposition in South Asian languages -Borrowing or Retention or Innovation?-

Pascale Jacq The Development of a Lao-based orthography for Jrù

Phal Sok L'amuïssement du r final en khmer: allongement et diphtongaison

Sophana Srichampa Politeness strategies in Hanoi Vietnamese speech

Gregory D.S. Anderson Advances in Proto-Munda reconstruction

Notes, Reviews, Bibliography Conference Reports Susan Malone Conference on Language Development, Language Revitalization and Multilingual Education in Ethnic Minority Communities in Asia, November 6-8, 2003, Bangkok, Thailand

Brian Migliazza Conference on Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 14), May 1921, 2004, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand

Brian Migliazza Asia Lexicography Conference, May 24-26, 2004, Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Brian Migliazza 37th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, October 1-3, 2004, University of Lund - Lund, Sweden