Western Pwo

E685683

Western Pwo is a Karen language variety spoken primarily by the Pwo Karen people in Myanmar and neighboring regions.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Western Pwo canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Karen language ⓘ
Sino-Tibetan language ⓘ
language variety ⓘ
alternativeName Pwo Karen (Western) ⓘ
Western Pwo Karen ⓘ
countryOfficialLanguageOf none ⓘ
endangermentStatus vulnerable ⓘ
ethnicGroup Pwo Karen ⓘ
glottocode pwoe1235 ⓘ
hasDialects Bassein dialect ⓘ
Mergui dialect ⓘ
Tavoyan dialect ⓘ
hasLinguisticAncestor Proto-Karen ⓘ
Proto-Sino-Tibetan ⓘ
hasNeighboringLanguages Burmese ⓘ
Mon ⓘ
Sgaw Karen ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
tonal language ⓘ
voiceless sonorants ⓘ
hasWordOrder SVO ⓘ
iso639-3Code pwo ⓘ
languageBranch Karen languages ⓘ
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan language family ⓘ
languageGroup Pwo Karen ⓘ
linguisticTypology analytic language ⓘ
minorityLanguageIn Thailand ⓘ
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Sgaw Karen ⓘ
primaryCountry Myanmar ⓘ
region Lower Myanmar ⓘ
Tenasserim coast ⓘ
linked to: Tenasserim
relatedTo Eastern Pwo ⓘ
Northern Pwo ⓘ
scriptDirection left-to-right ⓘ
spokenBy Pwo Karen people ⓘ
spokenIn Bago Region ⓘ
Mon State ⓘ
Myanmar ⓘ
Tanintharyi Region ⓘ
Thailand ⓘ
subclassOf Karen language ⓘ
linked to: Karen languages

Pwo Karen language ⓘ
usedBy rural communities in southern Myanmar ⓘ
usedFor oral communication ⓘ
writingSystem Burmese script ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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