script. Western Pwo, or Delta Pwo, is a Karen language of Burma with 210,000 estimated speakers. It is not intelligible with other varieties of Pwo. There...
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Eastern Pwo or Phlou,(Pwo Eastern Karen: ဖၠုံ, ဖၠုံယှိုဝ်, ဖၠုံဘာႋသာ့ဆ်ုခၠါင်, ဖၠုံဆ်ုခၠါင်[citation needed], Burmese: အရှေ့ပိုးကရင်) is a Karen language spoken...
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The Western Pwo alphabet (Pwo Western Karen: ၦဖျိၩ့ၡိအလံၬခၪ့ထံၭ /pə pʰloúɴ ɕô ʔə leiʔ kʰàɴ tʰeiʔ/) is an abugida used for writing Western Pwo language. It...
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intelligible: Eastern Pwo (code: kjp) Western Pwo (code: pwo) Northern Pwo (code: pww) Phrae Pwo (code: kjt) The people who speak the language are referred to...
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languages. The Karen languages are written using the Karen script. The three main branches are Sgaw (commonly known as Karen), Pwo and Pa'O. Karenni (also...
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Karen people (redirect from Pwo Karen people)
Sino-Tibetan language family, consist of three mutually unintelligible branches: Sgaw, Eastern Pwo, and Western Pwo. The Karen languages are almost unique...
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Kayaw Lashi Lahta Lahu Lhao Vo Lisu Mru Mro Akyaung Ari Kayaw Eastern Pwo Western Pwo Para Khiamniungan Koki Konyak Leinong Tangsa Long Phuri Makury Ponyo...
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Karen New Year (category Articles containing Pwo Western Karen-language text)
The Karen New Year (S'gaw Karen: ကညီနံၣ်ထီၣ်သီ, Pwo Western Karen: ၦဖျိၩ့နံၪ့ထၪ့ၥၫ့, Pwo Eastern Karen: ပ်ုဖၠုံၮိင်းထင်းသင့်), also known as the Kayin...
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as seen in examples 1–2. 1. Pwo, proximate demonstrative. Situational deictic use of pwo. Can mean 'this'. i yi 3SG pwo, pwo DEM.PROX moni moni money reo...
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frequently interspersed with Pwo Karen speakers. S'gaw dialects are: Eastern dialect of S’gaw Karen (Pa’an) Southern dialect of Western Kayah (Dawei) Delta dialect...
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home to 51 living indigenous languages and 24 living non-indigenous languages, with the majority of people speaking languages of the Southwestern Tai family...
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Choko language families due to contact. There are two dozen Tucanoan languages. There is a clear binary split between Eastern Tucanoan and Western Tucanoan...
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Burmese names (category Articles containing Pwo Western Karen-language text)
Used for Karen women, especially in West Pwo Karen. Nan (နန်း): Used for Karen women, especially in East Pwo Karen; also for Shan women. Sai (စိုင်း):...
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The Hmongic languages, also known as Miao languages (Chinese: 苗语; pinyin: Miáoyǔ), include the various languages spoken by the Miao people (such as Hmong...
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imwɔmw / means your house, puel for / pwpwel / means dirt, but po for / pwo / means pound. The geminate consonants were not represented initially and...
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List of writing systems (category Lists of languages)
Bantawa Kulitan alphabet Lai Tay – Tai Yo Lampung Lao Leke – Eastern Pwo, Western Pwo, and Karen Lepcha Limbu Lontara’ – Buginese, Makassar, and Mandar Mahajani...
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Bantoid (or South Bantoid) is a branch of the Bantoid language family. It consists of the Bantu languages along with several small branches and isolates of...
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Mon–Burmese script (category Articles containing Burmese-language text)
<ḷ>), the use of a virāma, and the round shape of letters. The Old Mon language might have been written in at least two scripts. The Old Mon script of...
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Ethnic groups in Thailand (category CS1 Thai-language sources (th))
populations of Northern Khmer and Kuy; 11 groups speaking Sino-Tibetan languages ('hill tribes'), with the largest in population being the Karen; 3 groups...
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Karen conflict (category CS1 Burmese-language sources (my))
grammar rules for the Pwo and Sgaw Karen dialects. In 1853, Francis Mason published the first Bible in the Sgaw Karen Language. A Pwo Karen Bible was published...
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exhibits the following 16 phonemic consonants: /p/ indicates a labialized [pʷɵ]. /c/ indicates a palatalized [tʲ]. Eipo has five phonemic vowels: Diphthongs...
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Ayeyarwady Region (category Articles containing Pwo Western Karen-language text)
ဧရာဝတီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး [ʔèjàwədì táiɰ̃ dèθa̰ dʑí], S'gaw Karen: ထံထၣ်စွ့, Pwo Western Karen: ထံၫထၪကျိၩ့; formerly Ayeyarwady Division and Irrawaddy Division)...
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List of contemporary ethnic groups (category CS1 Turkish-language sources (tr))
in Istanbul, which is not a part of Western Armenia). The Aramaic language morphed into the Neo-Aramaic languages around 1200 AD. Whether the majority...
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Indonesia, and across the border in Papua New Guinea. It is a trade language spoken in Western New Guinea up to the PNG border. According to Hammarström (2008)...
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Culture of Angola (section Ethnic groups and languages)
arts. Other signature pieces of Angolan art include the female mask Mwnaa-Pwo worn by male dancers in their puberty rituals, the polychromatic Kalelwa...
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Shan people (category Articles containing Shan-language text)
เงี้ยว) in Tai yuan language. The Shan also have a number of exonyms in other minority languages, including Pa'O: ဖြဝ်ꩻ, Western Pwo Karen: ၥဲၫ့, and Mon...
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Chokwe people (section Demographics and language)
displeased.: 43–44 The last ritual mask that the Chokwe use is the Pwo (woman) or Mwana Pwo (girl) mask, which closely resemble portraits, and it is a mask...
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Brahmic scripts (category Articles containing Burmese-language text)
the Brahmi script of ancient India and are used by various languages in several language families in South, East and Southeast Asia: Indo-Aryan, Dravidian...
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This is a list of ISO 639-3 language codes starting with P. Index | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u |...
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Hōkūleʻa (category CS1 foreign language sources (ISO 639-2))
This reference adds that the Pwo ceremony had not been conducted in fifty years, whereas Pwo suggests this was the first Pwo in fifty-six years Gordon,...
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