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Western Pwo
ဖျိၩ့, ဖျိၩ့ၡိ, အနောက်ပိုးကရင်[citation needed]
Native toMyanmar
RegionIrrawaddy Delta
EthnicityKaren people
Native speakers
(undated figure of 210,000)[1]
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
  • (Tibeto-Burman)
    • Karen languages
      • Pwo
        • Western Pwo
Writing system
Burmese
Language codes
ISO 639-3pwo
Glottologpwow1235

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 little dialectal variation.

  1. ^ Western Pwo at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005) Closed access icon

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