Western Pwo language

The final glottal stop may be an inherent feature of the checked tone rather than a syllable-final consonant.

These rhymes are realized as follows: Western Pwo is a tonal language, which means phonemic contrasts can be made on the basis of the tone of a vowel.

In Western Pwo, these contrasts involve not only pitch, but also phonation, intensity (loudness), duration, and vowel quality.

Additionally, there are atonic syllables, and they are represented by not adding any tone marks.

If we adopt interpretation (2), we need to phonologically recognize syllables ending with a glottal stop.

Therefore, adopting an interpretation that combines (1) and (2); that is, the final glottal stop is an inherent feature of the checked tone, and at the same time, it is also regarded as a phonological syllable-final consonant.

The combinations of C1 and C2 that have been found to date are listed as follows: The structure of a rhyme can be represented as -V1(V2) (C3).

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Western Pwo:[4]ၦကိၭဂၩ ဂဲၫထဲၩ့လၩ့ဖျဲၪလၧ ဆၧပျီၩဖျ့ၭမီၪ့ဎီၩ့ အဆၧလၩဆၧဖၩ့အဖၧၩ့မွဲဂ့ၩ, ဆၧပျီၩဖျ့ၭမီၪ့ဎီၩ့ အခွံးအရ့ၩဖၧၩ့မွဲဂ့ၩနီၪလီၫ.