Phrae Pwo language
Karen language spoken in Thailand
Phrae Pwo | |
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Northeastern Pwo | |
Native to | Thailand |
Ethnicity | Kayah people |
Native speakers | 6,000 (2009)[1] |
Language family | Sino-Tibetan
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Writing system | Thai script |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kjt |
Glottolog | phra1235 |
Phrae Pwo, or Northeastern Pwo, is a Karen language spoken in Phrae, Lampang, and Chiang Rai provinces of Thailand. It is not intelligible with other varieties of Pwo, though it is close to Northern Pwo.
References
- ^ Phrae Pwo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Further reading
- Dawkins, Erin and Audra Phillips A Sociolinguistic Survey of Pwo Karen in Northern Thailand (see pages 44–54).
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Sino-Tibetan branches
Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim)
Greater Magaric |
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![Map of Sino-Tibetan languages](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Sino-Tibetan_Languages_Map.png/200px-Sino-Tibetan_Languages_Map.png)
(Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal)
Burmese border
"Naga" | |
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Sal |
Burmo-Qiangic |
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isolates) (Arunachal)
Greater Siangic |
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Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches.