Eastern Sgaw Karen

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Eastern Sgaw Karen is a regional dialect of the Sgaw Karen language spoken by Karen communities in eastern Myanmar and nearby border areas.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Eastern Sgaw Karen canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (35)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
regional dialect
closelyRelatedTo Western Sgaw Karen
country Myanmar
Thailand
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Karen
Sgaw Karen
hasAlternativeName Eastern Sgaw
linked to: Sgaw Karen

Eastern Sgaw Karen dialect
hasAncestor Proto-Karenic language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
tone
hasSociolinguisticStatus minority language variety
ISO639Macrolanguage Sgaw Karen
languageBranch Karenic languages
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan languages
partOf Karen languages
Sgaw Karen dialect continuum
linked to: Sgaw Karen language
region eastern Myanmar
spokenBy Karen people
Sgaw Karen people
spokenIn Myanmar
Myanmar–Thailand border region
eastern Myanmar
subdivisionOf Sgaw Karen language
usedAlongside Burmese language
usedIn community meetings
folk songs
local community communication
local religious practice
oral tradition
storytelling
writingSystem Burmese script
Sgaw Karen script
linked to: Burmese script

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

Sgaw Karen language hasDialects Eastern Sgaw Karen