Sino-Tibetan · ISO 639-3 kjp
Pwo Eastern Karen Language အရှေ့ဖလုံ
Pwo Eastern Karen is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by about 1.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Myanmar script.
Where Pwo Eastern Karen is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Pwo Eastern Karen
Language family
- Sino-Tibetan
- Karenic
- Peripheral Karen
- Pwo
- Eastern-Western Pwo Karen
- Pwo Eastern Karen
Writing system
Myanmar script
About the Pwo Eastern Karen language
Pwo Eastern Karen (အရှေ့ဖလုံ) is spoken by about 1.0 million people, which makes it the 471st most spoken language in the world — just behind Kabiyè (1.0 million) and ahead of Shambala (1.0 million). It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family and, more precisely, to the Eastern-Western Pwo Karen group within the Peripheral Karen branch.
Where is Pwo Eastern Karen spoken?
Pwo Eastern Karen is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Myanmar (1.0 million).
Pwo Eastern Karen is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Pwo Eastern Karen is written in the Myanmar script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 kjp.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.