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Language code: kar

Technical information about ISO 639 language code kar

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The table below provides technical details for the Karen languages language, designated by the kar code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

kar

Name

Karen languages

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Sgaw KarenEastern Pwo KarenWestern Pwo KarenPa’O (Taungthu)Kayah (Red Karen)Bwe KarenGeba Karen
Related languages
BurmeseLisuLahuJingpho (Kachin)Yi (Nuosu)
Key facts
Karen languages form a distinct branch of the Sino-Tibetan familythey are tonal and use three to six contrastive tones depending on the varietyunlike most Sino-Tibetan tongues they favor Subject-Verb-Object word orderseveral Karen orthographies exist, including Burmese-based, Latin-based and indigenous scripts such as Kayah Licenturies of contact have left heavy lexical influence from Mon and Burmese.
Sample phrase

မ့းလၢာ၊ နၤအခၣ်ယံၤလါ?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Karen languages language, identified by the code kar, falls under the 'Collective' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Genetic' by its type.

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