Pwo Karen is one of the three main groups of the Karen languages, alongside S'gaw Karen and Pa'O, within the Tibeto-Burman branch of Sino-Tibetan. It comprises four dialects with limited mutual intelligibility, Eastern Pwo, Western Pwo, Northern Pwo and Phrae Pwo, spoken by the Pwo Karen people across eastern Myanmar and northern and western Thailand, where communities have lived for seven or eight centuries; Myanmar alone has an estimated 1.5 million speakers.
Pwo Karen languages
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Pwo Karen is one of the three primary branches of the Karenic (Karen) family, alongside Sgaw Karen and Pa'O; Karenic is itself a branch of Sino-Tibetan, linked here at the direct Karenic parent rather than the remoter Sino-Tibetan ancestor.
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