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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