Sgaw Karen New Testament with Psalms / A New Translation in Common Language / Burma / S'gaw Karen language of Myanmar and Thailand / စှီၤ/ကညီကျိာ်

Sgaw Karen New Testament with Psalms

A New Translation in Common Language 

S'gaw Karen language of Myanmar and Thailand / စှီၤ/ကညီကျိာ်

Publisher: Thailand Bible Society

Sgaw Karen NT & PSA / TBS-1994-5M

5,000 Copies Printed in 1994

ISBN 9748905845

S'gaw (စှီၤ/ကညီကျိာ်), Sgaw Karen or Sgaw Kayin, is a language spoken chiefly by the Sgaw Karen people in Myanmar and Thailand. A Karenic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, Sgaw Karen is spoken by over four million people in Tanintharyi Region, Ayeyarwady Region, Yangon Region, and Bago Region in Myanmar, and about 200,000 in northern and western Thailand along the border near Kayin State. It is written using the S'gaw Karen alphabet, derived from the Burmese script although a Latin-based script is also in use among the Sgaw Karen in northwestern Thailand.

Karen
K’nyaw
စှီၤ/ကညီကျိာ်
Pronunciation	[sɣɔʔ]
Native to	Myanmar, Thailand
Region	Kayin State, Eastern Myanmar, Western Thailand
Ethnicity	Karen people
Native speakers	(4 million cited 1983–2011)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Karenic Sgaw–Bghai Karen
Writing system	Myanmar script S'gaw Karen Script (Karen alphabet) Latin script Karen Braille
Official status
Official language in	Kayin State
Recognised minority language in	Thailand  Myanmar
Language codes
ISO 639-2	kar
ISO 639-3	ksw – inclusive code Individual codes: ksw – S'gaw jkp – Paku jkm – Mopwa wea – Wewaw
Glottolog	sout1554[2]