Northern Pwo | |
States: | Thailand |
Ethnicity: | Kayah people |
Speakers: | 60,000 |
Date: | 1983 |
Ref: | e26 |
Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
Fam2: | (Tibeto-Burman) |
Fam3: | Karen languages |
Fam4: | Pwo |
Script: | Thai script |
Iso3: | pww |
Glotto: | pwon1235 |
Glottorefname: | Pwo Northern Karen |
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.