Western Pwo, or Delta Pwo, 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
Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
with 210,000 estimated speakers. It is not intelligible with
other varieties of Pwo. There is little dialectal variation.
Distribution
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Ayeyarwady Region:
Einme
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Einme is divided into 5 wards: Chaungwa, Upper, Einmegyi, Lepaw and Sarchu ...
,
Maubin
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,
Pathein
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,
Twante
Twante Township also Twantay Township ( my, တွံတေး မြို့နယ်, ) is a township in the Yangon Region of Burma (Myanmar). It is located west across the Hlaing River from the city of Yangon. The principal town and administra ...
,
Kyonpyaw and
Hinthada
Hinthada ( my, ဟင်္သာတမြို့; formerly Henzada) is a city located on the Irrawaddy River in Ayeyarwady Region, Burma (Myanmar). In the 1983 census the city itself had a population of 82,005. By 2010 it had grown to 170,312. ...
towns
References
{{Languages of Burma
Karenic languages