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    Pa'O language (also spelled Pa-O or Pa-oh; Pa'o Karen: ပအိုဝ်ႏဘာႏသာႏ, listen); Burmese: ပအိုဝ်းဘာသာ), sometimes called Taungthu, is a Karen language spoken...
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    The Pa'O (Burmese: ပအိုဝ်းလူမျိုး, IPA: [pəo̰ lùmjóʊ], or တောင်သူ; Shan: ပဢူဝ်း; Eastern Poe Karen: တံင်သူ; S'gaw Karen: တီသူ; also spelt Pa-O or Paoh)...
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    Sino-Tibetan 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...
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  • Look up Pa'O in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pa'O may refer to: Pa'O language, a Karen language of Burma Pa'O people, an ethnic nationality in Burma...
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  • The Pwo Karen language is one of the main groups of the Karen languages, alongside the S'gaw Karen language and Pa'O. The Pwo Karen language contains four...
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    ethnolinguistic group of Sino-Tibetan language-speaking peoples. The group as a whole is heterogeneous and disparate as many Karen ethnic groups do not associate...
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    Salween River (category Articles containing Pa'o Karen-language text)
    major ethnic groups include Akha, Lahu, Lisu, Hmong, Kachin, Karen, Karenni, Kokang, Pa'O, Shan and Yao. The highest population densities are in Mon State...
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    Pa-O National Army (category Articles containing Pa'o Karen-language text)
    The Pa-O National Army (Pa'o Karen: ပအိုဝ်ႏစွိုးခွိုꩻတပ်မတောႏ, Burmese: ပအိုဝ်းအမျိုးသားတပ်မတော်; abbreviated PNA) is a Pa-O state sponsored militia in...
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  • not reflected as a distinct class in any modern Karen language, being merged with *A in Sgaw and Pa'O, with *B in Pwo, with *D in Kayan, Kayaw and Kaya...
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    Hopong (category Articles containing Pa'o Karen-language text)
    (Burmese: ဟိုပုန်းမြို့((Pa'o Karen: ဝေင်ꩻဟိုပုံꩻlisten) is a town in the Shan State of eastern Burma. Hopong is the capital of Pa'O Self-Administered Zone...
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    Pa-O National Liberation Army (category Articles containing Pa'o Karen-language text)
    The Pa-O National Liberation Army (Pa'o Karen: ပအိုဝ်ႏစွိုးခွိုꩻလွစ်ထန်ႏရေꩻတပ်မတောႏ, Burmese: ပအိုဝ်းအမျိုးသားလွတ်မြောက်ရေးတပ်မတော်; abbreviated PNLA)...
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    Phuri Makury Ponyo Tangkhul Tangsa Achang Nusu Pa'o Pyen Arakanese Rawang Riang Taman Khams Tibetan Geko Karen Zaiwa Zou Intha-Danu Blang Danau Muak Sa-aak...
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    Hsi Hseng (category Articles containing Pa'o Karen-language text)
    Hsi Hseng or Hsi-hseng (Burmese: ဆီဆိုင်မြို့) (Pa'o Karen: ဝေင်ꩻသီႏသဲင်ႏ(ဝေင်ꩻသထွုံႏပေႏ)) is a town in the Shan State of eastern Burma. It is located...
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    Karenni people (redirect from Karen-Ni)
    Bre, Manu-Manau (Kayan Manumanao), Yintale, Yinbaw kayan kangan, Bwe and Pa'O. Several of the groups (Geko, Geba, Padaung, Yinbaw) belong to Kayan, a subgroup...
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    community of volunteer editors, started on 15 January 2001 as an English-language encyclopedia. Non-English editions were soon created: the German and Catalan...
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    Hopong Township (category Articles containing Pa'o Karen-language text)
    ဟိုပုန်းမြို့နယ်) (Pa'o Karen: ဝေင်ꩻနယ်ႏဟိုပုံꩻ) is a township of Taunggyi District in the Shan State of Myanmar. The principal town is Hopong, Pa'O Self-Administered...
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    Aungban (category Articles containing Pa'o Karen-language text)
    Aungban (Burmese: အောင်ပန်းမြို့) (Pa'o Karen: ဝေင်ꩻအောင်ႏဗန်း) is a major trading town in the southern Shan State of Myanmar that supplies agricultural...
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    contrast to the Karenni (or "Red Karen") and the Pa'O (or "Black Karen"), even though the latter often rejected the term "Karen" to refer to themselves. The...
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    Tai family, and the national language being Central Thai. Lao is spoken along the borders with the Lao PDR, Karen languages are spoken along the border...
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    Loisawn (category Articles containing Pa'o Karen-language text)
    Sike Khaung or Sai Khao (Pa'o Karen: သုဲင်ꩻခဝ်) is a village in Hsi Hseng Township, Taunggyi District, Pa'O Self-Administered Zone, in the Shan State of...
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    Gaungto; Loilong Karens) 15. Ka-Yun (Kayan; Padaung) 16. Gheko (Karen, Geko) 17. Kebar, maybe translation error for Geba Karen language 18. Bre (Ka-Yaw;...
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  • Karen Americans (S'gaw Karen: ပှၤကညီဖိလၢကီၢ်အမဲရံကး) are Americans of full or partial Karen ancestry. They are a recent but rapidly growing immigrant...
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    510,000 people of Karen descent living in Thailand. A list of the Karen ethnic groups of significant size within Thailand are: Pa'o Pwo clade Phrae Pwo...
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  • Burmese names (category Articles containing S'gaw Karen-language text)
    (ခွန်): Used for Shan men (of Kengtung ancestry such as Khun Htun Oo) and Pa'O men. Ko (ကို): Used for men of similar age (e.g., Ko Mya Aye). Ma (မ): Used...
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  • the Sino-Tibetan language family, consist of three mutually unintelligible branches: Sgaw, Pwo, and Pa'o.[20] [21] Karenni (Red Karen) and Kayan belong...
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    History of Burma (1948–1962) (category CS1 Burmese-language sources (my))
    of U Nu's "Arms for Democracy" offer taken up by U Seinda in Arakan, the Pa'O, some Mon and Shan groups, but more significantly by the PVO surrendering...
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    Mon–Burmese script (category Articles containing Burmese-language text)
    alphabets used for modern Burmese, Mon, Shan, Rakhine, Jingpho and Karen. The Old Mon language might have been written in at least two scripts. The Old Mon...
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    Billy La Min Aye (category Articles containing S'gaw Karen-language text)
    (Burmese: ဘီလီလမင်းအေး, S'gaw Karen: ဘ့လံၤလၣ်မ့အ့; born 22 March 1995) is a Burmese singer-songwriter of ethnic Pa'O-Karen descent. She gained recognition...
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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 သေံဇၞော်...
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    Kula people (Asia) (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    of the Burmese word taungthu "hill man", refers to the Pa'O, an ethnic group within the Karen people. Kula also refers to miners in the Chanthaburi and...
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