| Northern Pwo | |
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| Native to | Thailand |
| Ethnicity | Kayah people |
Native speakers | (60,000 cited 1983)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Thai script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pww |
| Glottolog | pwon1235 |
Northern Pwo, orPhlong, is aKaren language ofThailand. It is not intelligible withother varieties of Pwo, though it is close toPhrae Pwo. Northern Pwo consists of the mutually intelligible dialects of Mae Ping, Omkoi (Hod), and Mae Sarieng.
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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| WesternHimalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand,Nepal,Sikkim) |
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| EasternHimalayas (Tibet,Bhutan,Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East andSoutheast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates) (Arunachal) |
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Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||