| Western Pwo | |
|---|---|
| ဖျိၩ့, ဖျိၩ့ၡိ, အနောက်ပိုးကရင်[citation needed] | |
| Native to | Myanmar |
| Region | Irrawaddy Delta |
| Ethnicity | Karen people |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 210,000)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Burmese | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pwo |
| Glottolog | pwow1235 |
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.
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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 at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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| Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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| Eastern Himalayas (Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo-Burmese border |
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| East and Southeast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates) (Arunachal) |
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| Proposed groupings | |||||
| Proto-languages | |||||
Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||
This page was last edited on 8 November 2023, at 14:01