Northern Pwo, or Phlong, is a
Karen language
The Karen () or Karenic languages are tonal languages spoken by some seven million Karen people. They are of unclear affiliation within the Sino-Tibetan languages. The Karen languages are written using the Karen script. The three main branches ...
of
Thailand
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. It is not intelligible with
other varieties of Pwo, though it is close to
Phrae Pwo. Northern Pwo consists of the mutually intelligible dialects of Mae Ping, Omkoi (Hod), and Mae Sarieng.
Distribution
*Chiang Mai, Lamphun, and Tak provinces
*
Mae Hong Son province
Mae Hong Son province ( Burmese: မဲဟောင်ဆောင်; th, แม่ฮ่องสอน, ; Northern Thai: ; Shan: ; formerly called ''Mae Rong Son''), also spelled ''Maehongson'', ''Mae Hong Sorn'' or ''Maehongsorn'', is one of ...
(15–25 villages):
Mae Sarieng town,
Mae Ngaw along Salween river, from Hot to Mae Sarieng.
References
Sources
*Phillips, Audra. 2009
''Lexical Similarity in Pwo Karen'' In PYU Working Papers in Linguistics 5, Audra Phillips (ed.). Chiang Mai, Thailand: Payap University Linguistics Department.
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