Northern Pwo is a member of the Pwo group of Karen languages. It is spoken by about 60,000 people in the provinces of Chiang Mai, Mae Hong Son, Lamphun and Tak along the Salween river in the northwest of Thailand.
Northern Pwo is also known as Northern Pwo Karen or Phlong. Dialects include Mae Ping, Mae Sarieng and Omkoi, and they are mutually intelligible.
Ways to write Northern Pwo with the Thai alphabet were developed in the 1970s by the Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF) and Baptist missionaries. Some literature was produced in this orthography, including a dictionary, collections of folk tales and stories, and translations of religious works.
Another orthography for Nothern Pwo was devised between 2003 and 2006 by the Non-Formal Education Deparment. It is known as the NFE orthography, and is used in education projects in Chiang Mai province.
In 2007 the FAL orthography was developed, and combines elements of previous ways to write Northern Pwo.
Download an alphabet chart for Northern Pwo (Excel)
Details of the Northern Pwo alphabet provided by Wolfram Siegel
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Source: https://www.academia.edu/es/745060/Omkoi_Pwo_Karen_Phonology_and_Orthography
Information about Northern Pwo | Tower of Babel
Information Northern Pwo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Pwo_language
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwo_du_Nord
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/pww
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/nort2704
https://www.academia.edu/es/745060/Omkoi_Pwo_Karen_Phonology_and_Orthography
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Page created: 17.05.22. Last modified: 19.05.22
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