Western Pwo language
Western Pwo, or Delta Pwo, is a Karen language of Burma with 210,000 estimated speakers. It is not intelligible with other varieties of Pwo. There is little dialectal variation.
| Western Pwo | |
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| ဖျိၩ့, ဖျိၩ့ၡိ, အနောက်ပိုးကရင် | |
| Native to | Myanmar |
| Region | Irrawaddy Delta |
| Ethnicity | Karen people |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 210,000)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Burmese | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pwo |
| Glottolog | pwow1235 |
References
- Western Pwo at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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| Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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| Eastern Himalayas (Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo-Burmese border |
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| East and Southeast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates) (Arunachal) |
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| Proposed groupings | |||||
| Proto-languages | |||||
Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||
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