Northern Pwo language

Northern Pwo
Native to Thailand
Ethnicity Kayah people
Native speakers
(60,000 cited 1983)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 pww
Glottolog pwon1235[2]

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 of the mutually intelligible dialects of Mae Ping, Omkoi (Hod), and Mae Sarieng.

Distribution

References

  1. Northern Pwo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Pwo Northern Karen". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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