Northern Pwo language

Northern Pwo
Native to	Thailand
Ethnicity	Kayah people
Native speakers	(60,000 cited 1983)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Karen languages Pwo Northern Pwo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pww
Glottolog	pwon1235

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

• Chiang Mai, Lamphun, and Tak provinces
• Mae Hong Son province (15–25 villages): Mae Sarieng town, Mae Ngaw along Salween river, from Hot to Mae Sarieng.

Sources

• Phillips, Audra. 2009. Lexical Similarity in Pwo Karen. In PYU Working Papers in Linguistics 5, Audra Phillips (ed.). Chiang Mai, Thailand: Payap University Linguistics Department.