Eastern Pwo

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Eastern Pwo is a Karenic language spoken primarily by the Pwo Karen people in parts of Myanmar and Thailand.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Eastern Pwo canonical 2
Eastern Pwo Karen 2
Eastern Pwo of Thailand 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Karenic language
Sino-Tibetan language
language
country Myanmar
Thailand
ethnicGroup Pwo Karen people
glottologCode east2336
glottologName Eastern Pwo Karen
linked to: Eastern Pwo
hasAncestor Proto-Karen
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
hasDialect Eastern Pwo of Myanmar
Eastern Pwo of Thailand
linked to: Eastern Pwo
hasFeature analytic language
tonal language
hasLoanwordsFrom Burmese
English
Pali
Thai
hasMorphologicalFeature little inflection
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tones
nasal consonants
voiceless and voiced stops
hasSyntacticFeature post-nominal modifiers
use of particles for aspect
isEndangered true
isNotMutuallyIntelligibleWith Sgaw Karen
Western Pwo
iso639-3Code ekp
languageFamily Karenic
Sino-Tibetan
linguisticTypology isolating language
neighboringLanguage Burmese
Thai
region southeastern Myanmar
western Thailand
linked to: Western Thailand
script Burmese script
spokenIn Myanmar
Thailand
subclassOf Karen language
linked to: Karen languages

Pwo Karen language
usedByReligion Buddhism
Christianity
usesWordOrder SVO
writingSystem Burmese alphabet
linked to: Burmese script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Pwo Karen hasLanguageVariety Eastern Pwo Karen
linked to: Eastern Pwo
Eastern Pwo hasDialect Eastern Pwo of Thailand
linked to: Eastern Pwo
Eastern Pwo glottologName Eastern Pwo Karen
linked to: Eastern Pwo
Western Pwo relatedTo Eastern Pwo