Ten'edn
Ten'edn, also known as Kensiu and Mos in Thailand and, in some previous literature, Tonga, is an aboriginal Mon–Khmer language spoken by the Maniq tribe of Thailand and Malaysia.
According to Benjamin, Maniq can refer to the following three or more speech varieties:
- Tonga'
- Mos
- Teanean
Sample vocabulary
| Maniq language | Jahai language | Number of objects | Examples |
| caŋə | 9 | tubers , food, cooked food, cooked meat, rice, wild pig , cooked wild pig, fresh meat, white sun | |
| caŋɛs | 8 | animal hair, hair of dusky leaf monkey , hair of banded leaf monkey , hair of pig-tailed macaque , burnt hair, burnt animal hair, roasted animal fat, sun | |
| caŋus | 9 | soap, washing oneself, fruit , leaves, Uvaria sp., clothes, talcum powder, sun, medicine to drink | |
| hamis | 2 | sun, air/smoke coming from the sun | |
| haʔĩt | haʔɛ̃t | 10 | dead animal, rotting animal, animal, plantain squirrel , Prevost’s squirrel , , bats, flying fox , tuber , bamboo tube |
| kamɛh | 6 | , , , Ipoh poison , flying fox , forest | |
| kamloh | 3 | smoke from fire, old shelter, bathing | |
| lspəs | ltpɨt | 14 | tuber , bearcat , tuber , tuber , tubers , new shelter, clean and dry clothes, fruit , forest, tree, animal, food, medicine to drink, white sun |
| palɛŋ | plʔeŋ | 11 | blood, animal blood, blood of wild pig , blood of pig-tailed macaque , blood of long-tailed macaque , blood of bearcat , raw meat, , , searching for food, sun |
| paʔɔ̞̃ʔ | 16 | tuber , mushroom, pouring water, fetching water, mud, digging tubers in mud, cooking muddy tubers, wet or dirty clothes, rotting bamboo tube, soil, searching for food, petai , Parkia timoriana, sweat, urine, old shelter | |
| miʔ bayɔ̞̃ɸ | 12 | old shelter, soil, shelter, mushrooms, skin of a dead animal, rotten wood, bamboo tube for water, drinking water from a bamboo tube, rotten leaf, head of banded leaf monkey , head of pig-tailed macaque , head of stump-tailed macaque | |
| miʔ danɔw | 10 | mushrooms, rotten wood, rotten mushrooms, old shelter, animal bones, durian seed, snakes, forest, searching for food, soil | |
| miʔ huhũɸ | 10 | snakes, soil, searching for tubers, digging tubers, mushrooms, sweat, rotten wood, walking in the forest, making fire, smoke | |
| miʔ latɨŋ | 10 | soil, burning fire, , , , , , mushrooms, tree, walking in the forest | |
| miʔ ɲətuʔ | 7 | tree sap, leaves, garlic, soil, forest, searching for food, |