Eastern Pwo or Phlou ,( Pwo Eastern Karen : ဖၠုံ, ဖၠုံယှိုဝ်, ဖၠုံဘာႋသာ့ဆ်ုခၠါင်, ဖၠုံဆ်ုခၠါင် , 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 . The Eastern Pwo dialects share 91 to 97% lexical similarity.
3-583: Thandaung ( Phlone ဍုံသင်တင် ; Burmese : သံတောင်မြို့ ) is a small resort town in the Kayin State of south Myanmar . The majority of its population is Karen . It was developed as a hill station by the British . This Kayin State location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Eastern Pwo language A script called Leke was developed between 1830 and 1860 and
6-531: Is in Mon-Burmese script . ploh plih luh née thuh Lee း lee yeh hu nwey xoh khwee 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: ကျူဒ်, ကျူ(ဒ်); Thai: จุด; English: and, dot). For example, 1.01
9-523: 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: The alphabet used for Eastern Pwo Karen language
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