| Eastern Pwo | |
|---|---|
| ဖၠုံ, ဖၠုံယှိုဝ်,[1] ဖၠုံဘာႋသာ့ဆ်ုခၠါင်, ဖၠုံဆ်ုခၠါင်[citation needed] | |
| Native to | Myanmar, Thailand |
| Ethnicity | Pwo Karen people |
Native speakers | (1,050,000 cited 1998)[2] |
| Mon-Burmese script (various alphabets) Leke script, Thai script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kjp |
| Glottolog | pwoe1235 |
Eastern Pwo or Phlou,(Pwo Eastern Karen: ဖၠုံ, ဖၠုံယှိုဝ်,[1] ဖၠုံဘာႋသာ့ဆ်ုခၠါင်, ဖၠုံဆ်ုခၠါင်[citation needed], Burmese: အရှေ့ပိုးကရင်) is a Karen language spoken by Eastern Pwo people and over a million people in Myanmar and by about 50,000 in Thailand, where it has been called Southern Pwo. It is not intelligible with other varieties of Pwo, with which it shares 63 to 65% lexical similarity.[1] The Eastern Pwo dialects share 91 to 97% lexical similarity.[1]
A script called Leke was developed between 1830 and 1860 and is used by members of the millenarian Leke sect of Buddhism. Otherwise, a variety of Mon-Burmese alphabets are used, and refugees in Thailand have created a Thai alphabet that is in limited use.
- ^ a b c d "Myanmar". Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-10-10.
- ^ Eastern Pwo at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
