Mok (/mÃÂÃÂk/ 'mountain people'), also known as Amok, Hsen-Hsum, and Muak, is an Angkuic language or dialect cluster spoken in Shan State, Myanmar
Seven speakers in Lampang province, Thailand, were reported by Wurm & Hattori (1981).
Hall & Devereux (2018) report that five varieties of Mok are spoken in Shan State, Myanmar, providing the following comparative vocabulary table. These varieties have some lexical similarity (the lowest being 88%) with each other, but very low lexical similarity with the other Angkuic languages.
Owen (2018) names these varieties Hwe Law, Chieng Kham, Pha Lam, Punglong, and Hwe Koi.
A Mok dialect of Shan State has been documented by Shintani (2019).
Tannumsaeng (2020) describes three locations for Mok: between Mong Khet and Mong Yang and south of Kengtung in Myanmar, and on the Thai-Burmese border in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand. The main Mok-speaking areas in Shan State include an area just to the south of Kengtung, and another area situated between Mong Khet and Mong Yang.
Tannumsaeng (2020), citing Hall & Devereux (2018), provides the following phonology for Mok.
The consonants are /pð p m f w tð t n s l r c ò j kð k à  Ã h/, with reduced /mé né òé à ÂàpàtàkàsÃÂ/. /f/ and /r/ only appear in certain varieties. The vowels are /i e àu ï o ä àa/, with the diphthongs /ia ïa ua/. Mok has two tones, one low and one high.
Where there are two vowels separated by a dot â¢, the one on the left is unrounded and the one on the right is rounded.