Pwo Western Karen
Pwo Western Karen is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Thailand and Myanmar. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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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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Words in Pwo Western Karen
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | phlon* | |
| ear | na7* | |
| nose | naphu* | |
| tooth | mai* | |
| tongue | phle* | |
| hand | su* | |
| blood | ၥွံၪ | |
| bone | xwi* | |
| skin | phE7* | |
| knee | khanlu7kho* | |
| breast | nu7* | |
| liver | 83n* | |
| water | thi* | |
| fire | me* | |
| sun | mi7* | |
| star | Sa* | |
| stone | lon7* | |
| tree | 83n* | |
| leaf | la* | |
| night | na* | |
| dog | thwi* | |
| fish | ya* | |
| louse | 83n* | |
| one | l3n* | |
| two | ni* | |
| I | y3* | |
| you | n3* | |
| we | p37* | |
| drink | au* | |
| see | da* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- Pwo Eastern KarenSino-Tibetan75% alike
- Phrae Pwo KarenSino-Tibetan54% alike
- Pwo Northern KarenSino-Tibetan41% alike
- S'gaw KarenSino-Tibetan30% alike
- Pa'o KarenSino-Tibetan29% alike
- Kayan LahwiSino-Tibetan26% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
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