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The Karen Language.
“The missionaries, headed by the great  Judson, have rescued the Karen language from oblivion and given it a certain permanency by reducing it to writing in the Burmese  character.”

*The Loyal Karens of Burma.

      THE HISTORICAL TRADITION : TAW-MAI-PAH,MYTHICAL ANCESTOR OF THE KARENS.
On the slopes of the Nat-toung of Toungoo lived a very old man, who was afterwards known as Taw-mai-pah (grandfather of the boar’s tusk).
 A huge wild boar ravaged the toungyas of the old man’s sons and sons-in-law, till the injury done became unbearable. Such, however, was the no one dared to attack him.

THEIR NATIONAL RELIGION AND THEIR GOD TRADITIONS.

The Karens are remarkable for believing in one eternal God, Creator of all things, “who is like the air, and lives in the sky, as does the wind, and like the wind goes everywhere.”