Northern Pwo language
Northern Pwo, or Phlong, is a Karen language of Thailand. It is not intelligible with other varieties of Pwo, though it is close to Phrae Pwo. Northern Pwo consists of the mutually intelligible dialects of Mae Ping, Omkoi (Hod), and Mae Sarieng.
| Northern Pwo | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Thailand |
| Ethnicity | Kayah people |
Native speakers | (60,000 cited 1983)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pww |
| Glottolog | pwon1235[2] |
Distribution
- Chiang Mai, Lamphun, and Tak provinces
- Mae Hong Son province (15–25 villages): Mae Sarieng town, Mae Ngaw along Salween river, from Hot to Mae Sarieng.
gollark: Oh, you mean CHAR length?
gollark: Unlike BAD strings.
gollark: Like GOOD strings.
gollark: Rust strings just STORE the length.
gollark: Indeed. UTF-16 is heresy.
References
- Northern Pwo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Pwo Northern Karen". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Phillips, Audra. 2009. Lexical Similarity in Pwo Karen. In PYU Working Papers in Linguistics 5, Audra Phillips (ed.). Chiang Mai, Thailand: Payap University Linguistics Department.
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