1. Family: Sino-Tibetan
  2. Subfamily: Tibeto-Burman
  3. Genus: Karen

Karen (Pwo)

WALS coordinates: 13° N, 99° 10′ E

spoken in China, Myanmar

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Pho
Routledge:
  • Pwo,
  • Pho
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Nominal Syntax
    Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Identity
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
    Order of Subject and Verb SV
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb VOX
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative
    Order of Numeral and Noun Noun-Numeral
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    Position of Polar Question Particles Final
    Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Mixed
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Polar Questions Question particle