Western Pwo language

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.

Western Pwo
ဖျိၩ့, ဖျိၩ့ၡိ
အနောက်ပိုးကရင်
Native toBurma
RegionIrrawaddy Delta
EthnicityKaren people
Native speakers
(undated figure of 210,000)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
Burmese
Language codes
ISO 639-3pwo
Glottologpwow1235[2]

Distribution

References

  1. Western Pwo at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Pwo Western Karen". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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