Data
During the 20th century, the only data available were a short word list in De Roepstorff (1875), scattered notes Man (1886), and comparative list in Man (1889).
It was a century before more data became available. 70 words were published in 1995, and then in 2003 substantial new data was published, the most extensive so far. However, Blench and Sidwell (2011) note that the 2003 book is at least partially plagiarized, the authors show little sign of understanding the material, which is full of anomalies and inconsistencies, and that the data appears to have been taken from an earlier source or sources, perhaps from the colonial era. Van Driem (2008) found it too difficult to work with, but Blench and Sidwell made an attempt at analyzing and retranscribing the data, based on comparisons of Malay loan words and identifiable cognates with other Mon–Khmer languages. They conclude that the data in the 1995 and 2003 publications come from either the same language or two closely related languages.
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