It is not intelligible with other varieties of Pwo, with which it shares 63 to 65% lexical similarity.
[1] The Eastern Pwo dialects share 91 to 97% lexical similarity.
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 is in Mon-Burmese script.
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).