Western Pwo | |
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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.
Distribution
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Uvular/ Glottal | ||
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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 | ||
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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)