Northern Pwo language explained

Northern Pwo
States:Thailand
Ethnicity:Kayah people
Speakers:60,000
Date:1983
Ref:e26
Familycolor:Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:(Tibeto-Burman)
Fam3:Karen languages
Fam4:Pwo
Script:Thai script
Iso3:pww
Glotto:pwon1235
Glottorefname:Pwo Northern Karen

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.

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