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[citation needed] | |
| Native to | Burma |
| Region | Irrawaddy Delta |
| Ethnicity | Karen people |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 210,000)[1] |
Language family | Sino-Tibetan
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Writing system | Burmese |
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| ISO 639-3 | pwo |
| Glottolog | pwow1235 |
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| Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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| 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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