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The Karen alphabet was created by American missionary Jonathan Wade in the 1830s, based on the S'gaw Karen language; Wade was assisted by a Karen named Paulah. [1] The consonants and most of the vowels are adopted from the Burmese alphabet; however, the Karen pronunciation of the letters is slightly different from that of the Burmese alphabet ...
The Karen (/ k ə ˈ r ɛ n /) [2] or Karenic languages are tonal languages spoken by some 4.5 million Karen people. [1] They are of unclear affiliation within the Sino-Tibetan languages. [3] The Karen languages are written using the Karen script. [4] The three main branches are Sgaw (commonly known as Karen), Pwo and Pa'O.
S’gaw, S'gaw Karen, or S’gaw K’Nyaw, commonly known as Karen, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the S'gaw Karen people of Myanmar and Thailand.A Karenic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, S'gaw Karen is spoken by over 2 million people in Tanintharyi Region, Ayeyarwady Region, Yangon Region, and Bago Region in Myanmar, and about 200,000 in northern and western Thailand along ...
Karenni or Red Karen (Kayah Li: ꤊꤢꤛꤢ꤭ ꤜꤟꤤ꤬; Burmese: ကရင်နီ), known in Burmese as Kayah (Burmese: ကယား), is a Karen dialect continuum spoken by over half a million Kayah people (Red Karen) in Burma. The name Kayah has been described as "a new name invented by the Burmese to split them off from other Karen". [2]
Unlike the Myanmar script, the Kayah Li script is an alphabet proper as the consonant letters do not have any subsequent vowel.Four of the vowels are written with separate letter, the others are written using a combination of the letter for a and a diacritic marker.
The Leke script, previously known as Karen Chicken Scratch script, is an abugida used to write the Pwo Karen language and Sgaw language in Burma and Thailand. It has 25 consonants, 17 vowels and 3 tones. The script also has a unique set of numerals and punctuation, such as a full stop (period) and a comma.
They speak the S'gaw Karen language. [4] The S'gaw are a subgroup of the Karen people. They are also referred to by the exonym White Karen, [5] a term dating from colonial times and used in contrast to the Karenni (or "Red Karen") and the Pa'O (or "Black Karen"), even though the latter often rejected the term "Karen" to refer to themselves. [5]
Brek, also known as Brek Karen, Bre, and Kayaw, is a Karen language of Burma. Distribution. eastern Kayah State (30 villages) northeastern Kayin State: Yado area;