Western Pwo language
Western Pwo | |
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Delta Pwo | |
Native to | Burma |
Region | Irrawaddy Delta |
Ethnicity | Kayah people |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 210,000)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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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
- Ayeyarwady Region: Einmeh, Maubin, Pathein, Twante, others
- Bago Region: including Kyonpyaw and Hinthada towns
References
- ↑ Western Pwo at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).
- ↑ 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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