Western Pwo language

Western Pwo
Delta Pwo
Native to Burma
Region Irrawaddy Delta
Ethnicity Kayah people
Native speakers
(undated figure of 210,000)[1]
Burmese
Language codes
ISO 639-3 pwo
Glottolog pwow1235[2]

Western Pwo, or Delta Pwo, is a Karen language of Burma. It is not intelligible with other varieties of Pwo. There is little dialectal variation.

Distribution

References

  1. Western Pwo at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Pwo Western Karen". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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