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Phrae Pwo, or Northeastern Pwo, is a
Karen language The Karen () or Karenic languages are tonal languages spoken by some seven million Karen people. They are of unclear affiliation within the Sino-Tibetan languages. The Karen languages are written using the Karen script. The three main branches ...
spoken in Phrae, Lampang, and Chiang Rai provinces of
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. It is not intelligible with other varieties of Pwo, though it is close to Northern Pwo.


References


Further reading

* Dawkins, Erin and Audra Phillips
A Sociolinguistic Survey of Pwo Karen in Northern Thailand
' (see pages 44–54). {{Karenic languages Karenic languages