Austroasiatic language spoken in Myanmar and China
"Son language" redirects here. For the concept of languages descending from their ancestral forms, see Daughter language.
Wa
Va, Vo, Awa
Region
China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand
Ethnicity
Wa
Native speakers
900,000 (2000–2008)[1]
Language family
Austroasiatic
Khasi–Palaungic
Palaungic
Waic
Wa
Writing system
Latin script Formerly: Chinese characters, Shan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Variously: prk – Parauk wbm – Vo vwa – Awa
Glottolog
waaa1245
ELP
Wa
Phalok[2]
Wa is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
Wa (Va) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Wa people of Myanmar and China. There are three distinct varieties, sometimes considered separate languages; their names in Ethnologue are Parauk, the majority and standard form; Vo (Zhenkang Wa, 40,000 speakers) and Awa (100,000 speakers), though all may be called Wa, Awa, Va, Vo. David Bradley (1994) estimates there are total of 820,000 Wa speakers.
^Parauk at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Vo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Awa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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