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Karenic language spoken in Myanmar, Thailand From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
Eastern Pwo | |
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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 |
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.
The following displays the phonological features of two of the eastern Pwo Karen dialects, Pa'an and Tavoy:
Four tones are present in Eastern Pwo:
Tones | |
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v́ | ˦ |
v̄ | ˧ |
v̀ | ˨ |
v̂ | ˥˩ |
The alphabet used for Eastern Pwo Karen language is in Mon-Burmese script.
က ka(/kaˀ/) |
ခ kha(/kʰaˀ/) |
ဂ ga(/gaˀ/) |
ဃ gha(/kʰaˀ/) |
င ṅa(/ŋa̰ˀ/) |
စ ca(/ca̰ˀ/) |
ဆ cha(/cʰa̰ˀ/) |
ဇ sa(/sa̰/) |
ဈ sa(/sa̰ˀ/) |
ည ña(/ñaˀ/) |
ဋ ṭa(/taˀ/) |
ဌ ṭha(/tʰaˀ/) |
ဍ ḍa(/ɗaˀ/) |
ဎ ḍha(/ɗʰaˀ/) |
ၮ ṇ(/na̰/) |
တ ta(/taˀ/) |
ထ tha(/tʰaˀ/) |
ဒ da(/da̰ˀ/) |
ဓ dha(/tʰa̰ˀ/) |
န na(/na̰ˀ/) |
ပ pa(/pa̰ˀ/) |
ဖ pha(/pʰa̰ˀ/) |
ဗ ba(/ba̰ˀ/) |
ဘ bha(/bʰa̰ˀ/) |
မ ma(/ma̰ˀ/) |
ယ ya(/ya̰ˀ/) |
ရ ra(/ra̰ˀ/) |
လ la(/la̰ˀ/) |
ဝ wa(/wa̰ˀ/) |
သ sa(/sa̰ˀ/) |
ဟ ha(/ha̰ˀ/) |
ဠ la(/la̰ˀ/) |
အ a(/ʔaˀ/) |
ၜ ba(/ɓaˀ/) |
ၯ hha(/ŋga̰ˀ/) |
ၰ ghwa(/ŋghɛ̀ˀˀ/) |
Number | Eastern Pwo Karen | ||
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Numeral | Written | Pronounce | |
0 | ၀ | ပၠဝ်ပၠေ | ပ္လေါဟ်ပ္လိဟ်
ploh plih |
1 | ၁ | လ်ု | လုဟ်
luh |
2 | ၂ | ဏီ့ | ဏီး
née |
3 | ၃ | သိုငၲ့ | သုဟ်
thuh |
4 | ၄ | လီႉ | လီး
Lee း lee |
5 | ၅ | ယဲါ | ယေဟ်
yeh |
6 | ၆ | ၰူ့ | ဟု
hu |
7 | ၇ | နိူဲ့ | နွေ့ယ်
nwey |
8 | ၈ | ၰိုဝၲ | ၐိုဝ်
xoh |
9 | ၉ | ခိုဲႉ | ခွေး
khwee |
10 | ၁၀ | လ်ုဆီ့(ဆီ့) | luh chi/chi |
11 | ၁၁
|
ဆီ့လ်ု | chi luh |
12 | ၁၂
|
ဆီ့ဏီ့ | chi ne |
20 | ၂၀ | ဏီ့ဆီ့ | ne chi |
21 | ၂၁ | ဏီ့ဆီ့လ်ု | ne chi luh |
22 | ၂၂ | ဏီ့ဆီ့ဏီ့ | ne chi ne |
100 | ၁၀၀ | လ်ုဖငၲႉ(ဖငၲႉ) | luh pong/pong |
101 | ၁၀၁ | လ်ုဖငၲႉလ်ု | luh pong luh |
1000 | ၁၀၀၀ | လ်ုမိုငၲ့(မိုငၲ့) | luh muh/muh |
10000 | ၁၀၀၀၀ | လ်ုလါ(လါ) | luh lah/lah |
100000 | ၁၀၀၀၀၀ | လ်ုသိငၲႉ(သိငၲႉ) | luh thay/thay |
The Eastern Pwo Karen numeric symbols have been proposed for encoding in a future Burmese Unicode block.
Due to the close approximation to Thailand, the Eastern Pwo Karen adopts Thai's decimal word, chut, (Karen: ကျူဒၲ, ကျူ(ဒၲ); Thai: จุด; English: and, dot). For example, 1.01 is luh chut ploh plih luh (လ်ု ပၠဝ်ပၠေလ်ု).
Fractions are formed by saying puh (ပုံႉ) after the numerator and the denominator. For example, one-third (1/3) would be luh puh thuh puh (လ်ုပုံသိုငၲ့ပုံ) and three over one, three-"oneths" (3/1) would be thuh puh luh puh (သိုငၲ့ပုံလ်ုပုံ).
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