Skaw Karen

E680702

Skaw Karen is a major dialect of the Sgaw Karen language spoken primarily by the Karen people of Myanmar and Thailand.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Skaw Karen canonical 2
Northern Skaw Karen 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
variety of Sgaw Karen language
alternativeName Sgaw Karen dialect
linked to: Sgaw Karen language

Skaw Sgaw Karen
linked to: Sgaw Karen
associatedWith Karen Baptist Convention
Karen cultural organizations
closelyRelatedTo Pa’O Karen
linked to: Pa’O

Pwo Karen
country Myanmar
Thailand
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Karen
hasDialectsOrVarieties Northern Skaw Karen
linked to: Skaw Karen

Southern Skaw Karen
hasGrammarType SVO word order
hasLinguisticFeature classifier system
postpositions instead of prepositions
hasMorphologyType analytic morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant clusters
contrastive vowel length
tonal system
hasStandardForm Bible translation-based standard
ISO639-3Code ksw
languageFamily Karenic languages
Sino-Tibetan languages
partOf Sgaw Karen language
region Chiang Mai Province, Thailand
linked to: Chiang Mai Province

Kayin State, Myanmar
linked to: Kayin State

Tak Province, Thailand
Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar
linked to: Tanintharyi Region
scriptDirection left-to-right
spokenBy Karen people
spokenIn Myanmar
Thailand
usedBy Buddhist Karen communities
Christian Karen communities
usedFor daily communication
oral tradition
religious activities
usedIn Karen folktales
Karen traditional songs
usedInEducation community schools in Karen areas
usedInMedia local radio programs
religious publications
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Sgaw Karen script
linked to: Burmese script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Skaw Karen hasDialectsOrVarieties Northern Skaw Karen
linked to: Skaw Karen
Sgaw Karen hasExonym Skaw Karen