• 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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  • Eastern Pwo or Phlou, (Burmese: အရှေ့ပိုးကရင်) is a Karen language spoken by Eastern Pwo people and over a million people in Myanmar and by about 50,000...
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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....
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  • Phrae Pwo, or Northeastern Pwo, is a Karen language spoken in Phrae, Lampang, and Chiang Rai provinces of Thailand. It is not intelligible with other...
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  • Northern Pwo, or Phlong, is a Karen language of Thailand. It is not intelligible with other varieties of Pwo, though it is close to Phrae Pwo. Northern Pwo consists...
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    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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  • 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 is...
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  • Pwo language may refer to: Pwo Karen languages (Burma) Phuie language (Burkina) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Pwo...
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    Kayin State (redirect from Karen state)
    pronounced [kəjɪ̀ɴ pjìnɛ̀]; Pwo Eastern Karen: ဖၠုံခါန်ႋကၞင့်; S'gaw Karen: ကညီကီၢ်စဲၣ်, pronounced [kɲɔkɔshæ]), formerly known as Karen State, is a state of...
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    Hpon Kadu Ganan Kayaw Red Karen Padaung Kayaw Lashi Lahta Lahu Lhao Vo Lisu Mru Mro Akyaung Ari Kayaw Eastern Pwo Western Pwo Para Khiamniungan Koki Konyak...
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    Pwo Karen speakers. S'gaw dialects are: Eastern dialect of S’gaw Karen (Pa’an) Southern dialect of Western Kayah (Dawei) Delta dialect of S’gaw Karen...
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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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    Sgaw and Pwo are the most common. Karen languages are among the Tibeto-Burman languages, which are a branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages. Karen people...
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  • comparative method to forms from two Karen languages, Pwo and Sgaw, from A Comparative Dictionary of the Pwo-Karen Dialect (1922) by W. C. B. Purser and...
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    [zkn] Karen: Karen, Bwe [bwe] Karen, Geba [kvq] Karen, Geko [ghk] Karen, Mobwa [jkm] Karen, Paku [jkp] Karen, Pwo Eastern [kjp] Karen, Pwo Western [pwo] Karen...
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    Kawkareik (Pwo Eastern Karen: ဍုံကောဝ်တြာ်; Burmese: ကော့ကရိတ်, [kɔ̰kəɹeɪʔ]; S'gaw Karen: ဒူဖျၢ်ယၢ်ဝ့ၢ်ဖိ), also spelled as Kawkarike, is a town in Karen State...
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  • The Eastern Pwo (Burmese: အရှေ့ပိုးကရင်မျိုးနွယ်စု or ဖလုံမူထောင်း or ဖၠုံမူထင်း) are a subgroup of the Karen ethnic groups who live in the southeast...
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  • script, previously known as Karen Chicken Scratch script, is an abugida used to write the Pwo Karen language and Sgaw language in Burma (Myanmar) and Thailand...
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    decades due to conflict in Karen state. S'gaw people are the founder of the Karen National Union (KNU). Karen (S'gaw and Pwo) legend refer to a 'river...
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    Hpapun Township (category Articles containing Pwo Eastern Karen-language text)
    ဖာပွန်မြို့နယ်, MLCTS: hpa.pwan.mrui.nay; Pwo Eastern Karen: ဖာပံင်ကၞင့်; S'gaw Karen: ဖးဖူကီၢ်ဆၣ်; also known by the Karen people as Mutraw or Bu Tho Township)...
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    Hpa-an (category Articles containing Pwo Eastern Karen-language text)
    ʔàɰ̃ mjo̰]; Pwo Eastern Karen: ဍုံထ်ုအင်; S'gaw Karen: ဖၣ်အၣ်ဝ့ၢ်ဖိ, also spelled Pa-an) is the capital and largest city of Kayin State (Karen State), Myanmar...
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  • Burmese names (category Articles containing Pwo Western Karen-language text)
    for Karen men, especially in S'gaw Karen and East Pwo Karen (e.g., Saw Nga Man, Saw Bo Mya). Sa (စ): Used for Karen men, especially in West Pwo Karen. Sawbwa...
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  • Papun (category Articles containing Pwo Eastern Karen-language text)
    Papun (Burmese: ဖာပွန်မြို့; Pwo Eastern Karen: ဍုံဖာပံင်; S'gaw Karen: ဖးဖူဝ့ၢ်ဖိ) is a town in Kayin State, Myanmar. It is on the east side of the Yunzalin...
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  • Studies. p. 228. ISBN 978-87-91114-96-0. An estimated 15-20 per cent of Pwo and Sgaw Karen are Christian ... historical confrontation of Buddhism and Christianity...
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  • Kawthoolei (category Articles containing S'gaw Karen-language text)
    adopted. Kawthoolei is not the only name used to refer to a Karen country: the Pwo Karen use the phrase "Kan Su Line", meaning literally, "land cool cave"...
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    Pa'O people (redirect from Pwo people)
    ပအိုဝ်းလူမျိုး, IPA: [pəo̰ lùmjóʊ], or တောင်သူ; Shan: ပဢူဝ်း; Eastern Poe Karen: တံင်သူ; S'gaw Karen: တီသူ; also spelt Pa-O or Paoh) are the seventh largest ethnic...
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    Apalon (village) (category Articles containing Pwo Eastern Karen-language text)
    Apalon (Pwo Eastern Karen: အ်ုပၠုံ) is a village alongside the Zami River in Kyain Seikgyi Township, Kawkareik District, Karen State, south-eastern Myanmar...
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    Kale (Pwo Eastern Karen: ခၠိုင့်; Burmese: ခလယ် [kʰa̰ lɛ], also spelled Kha Lel or Khale) is a large village in Kyain Seikgyi Township, Kawkareik District...
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    Taungdi (category Articles containing Pwo Eastern Karen-language text)
    Taungdi Pwo Eastern Karen: တံင့်တီႋ; Burmese: တောင်ဒီး [tàʊɴ Dí]) is a large village in Kyain Seikgyi Township, Kawkareik District, in the Kayin State...
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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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