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(Redirected from Phrae Pwo Karen language) Karen language spoken in Thailand
Phrae Pwo
Northeastern Pwo
Native toThailand
EthnicityKayah people
Native speakers6,000 (2009)
Language familySino-Tibetan
Writing systemThai script
Language codes
ISO 639-3kjt
Glottologphra1235

Phrae Pwo, or Northeastern Pwo, is a Karen language spoken in Phrae, Lampang, and Chiang Rai provinces of Thailand. It is not intelligible with other varieties of Pwo, though it is close to Northern Pwo.

References

  1. Phrae Pwo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

Further reading

Sino-Tibetan branches
Western Himalayas (Himachal,
Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim)
Greater Magaric
Map of Sino-Tibetan languages
Eastern Himalayas
(Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal)
Myanmar and Indo-
Burmese border
"Naga"
Sal
East and Southeast Asia
Burmo-Qiangic
Dubious (possible
isolates) (Arunachal)
Greater Siangic
Proposed groupings
Proto-languages
Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches.
Karenic languages
Northern
Central
Kayah
Kayan
Kayaw
Western Bwe
Southern
S'gaw
Pwo
Proto-language
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