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

Western Pwo, or Delta Pwo, is a Karen language of Burma with 210,000 estimated speakers. It is not intelligible with other varieties of Pwo. There is little dialectal variation.

Distribution

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Dental Alveolar Post-
alveolar 		Palatal Velar Uvular/
Glottal
Nasal m n ɲ
Plosive/
Affricate 		voiced b d̪ d dʑ ɡ
breathy bʱ dʱ dʑʱ ɡʱ
voiceless p t ʔ
implosive (ɓ) (ɗ)
Fricative voiced ʑ ɣ ɦ
voiceless x χ
Trill r
Approximant central w j
lateral l

Vowels

Front Central Back
High i y ɨ u
Near-high ɪ ʊ
High-mid e ø o
Low-mid ɛ ɔ
Low a

References

Western Pwo language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator
  1. ^ Western Pwo at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005) Closed access icon


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