Phrae Pwo language

Karen language spoken in Thailand
Phrae Pwo
Northeastern Pwo
Native toThailand
EthnicityKayah people
Native speakers
6,000 (2009)[1]
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
  • Tibeto-Burman
    • Karenic
      • Pwo
        • Phrae Pwo
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

  • Dawkins, Erin and Audra Phillips A Sociolinguistic Survey of Pwo Karen in Northern Thailand (see pages 44–54).
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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 groupingsProto-languages
Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches.