| Western Pwo | |
| Nativename: | ဖျိၩ့, ဖျိၩ့ၡိ, အနောက်ပိုးကရင် |
| States: | Myanmar |
| Region: | Irrawaddy Delta |
| Ethnicity: | Karen people |
| Speakers: | 210,000 |
| Date: | no date |
| Ref: | e15 |
| Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam2: | (Tibeto-Burman) |
| Fam3: | Karen languages |
| Fam4: | Pwo |
| Script: | Burmese |
| Iso3: | pwo |
| Glotto: | pwow1235 |
| Glottorefname: | Pwo Western Karen |
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.
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| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular/ Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /m/ | pronounced as /n/ | pronounced as /ɲ/ | |||||
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiced | pronounced as /b/ | pronounced as /d̪/ | pronounced as /d/ | pronounced as /dʑ/ | pronounced as /ɡ/ | ||
| breathy | pronounced as /bʱ/ | pronounced as /dʱ/ | pronounced as /dʑʱ/ | pronounced as /ɡʱ/ | ||||
| voiceless | pronounced as /p/ | pronounced as /t/ | pronounced as /ʔ/ | |||||
| implosive | (pronounced as /ɓ/) | (pronounced as /ɗ/) | ||||||
| Fricative | voiced | pronounced as /ʑ/ | pronounced as /ɣ/ | pronounced as /ɦ/ | ||||
| voiceless | pronounced as /x/ | pronounced as /χ/ | ||||||
| Trill | pronounced as /r/ | |||||||
| Approximant | central | pronounced as /w/ | pronounced as /j/ | |||||
| lateral | pronounced as /l/ | |||||||
| Front | Central | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | pronounced as /i/ | pronounced as /y/ | pronounced as /ɨ/ | pronounced as /u/ | |
| Near-high | pronounced as /ɪ/ | pronounced as /ʊ/ | |||
| High-mid | pronounced as /e/ | pronounced as /ø/ | pronounced as /o/ | ||
| Low-mid | pronounced as /ɛ/ | pronounced as /ɔ/ | |||
| Low | pronounced as /a/ | ||||