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Wa

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K'awa; Kawa; Va; Vo; Wa Pwi; Wakut; Awa; Vü; Wa-Vü; Paraok; Praok; Parauk; Baraog; 佤語; ဝ

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Austro-Asiatic; Palaungic; East Palaungic;Wa-Lawa; Waic

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A study of Wa (佤語方言研究)
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Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)
World Oral Literature Project
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396,619 in China (as of 2000 census)

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2004

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Yunnan Province, China

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mainly spoken in Cangyuan Va Autonomous County (滄源佤族自治縣), Gengma Dai and Va Autonomous County (耿馬傣族佤族自治縣), Shuangjiang Lahu, Va, Blang and Dai Autonomous County (雙江拉祜佤族布朗族傣族自治縣), Yongde County (永德縣), and Zhenkang County (鎮康縣) in Lincang District (臨滄區); Ximeng Va Autonomous County (西盟佤族自治縣), Menglian Dai, Lahu and Va Autonomous County (孟連傣族拉祜族佤族自治縣), Lancang Lahu Autonomous County (瀾滄拉祜族自治縣), in Simao District (思茅區). Also spoken in Thailand and Burma.

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mainly spoken in Cangyuan Va Autonomous County (滄源佤族自治縣), Gengma Dai and Va Autonomous County (耿馬傣族佤族自治縣), Shuangjiang Lahu, Va, Blang and Dai Autonomous County (雙江拉祜佤族布朗族傣族自治縣), Yongde County (永德縣), and Zhenkang County (鎮康縣) in Lincang District (臨滄區); Ximeng Va Autonomous County (西盟佤族自治縣), Menglian Dai, Lahu and Va Autonomous County (孟連傣族拉祜族佤族自治縣), Lancang Lahu Autonomous County (瀾滄拉祜族自治縣), in Simao District (思茅區). Also spoken in Thailand and Burma.

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Many monolinguals

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2009

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Myanmar; China

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China: Southwest Yunnan, Lincang Prefecture, Yongde and Zhenkang counties.

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China: Southwest Yunnan, Lincang Prefecture, Yongde and Zhenkang counties.

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2012

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22.662531,99.567372

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  3. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  4. LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)
    Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry and Yichun Xie. 2012. "LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)." Online: http://llmap.org.
    http://llmap.org
  5. The phonetics of Wa: experimental phonetics, phonology, orthography and sociolinguistics
    Justin Watkins. 2002. The phonetics of Wa: experimental phonetics, phonology, orthography and sociolinguistics. Pacific Linguistics 531.
  6. A study of Wa (佤語方言研究)
    Chou Zhizhi (周植志), Yan Qixiang (顏其香), Chen Guoching (陳國慶). 2004. A study of Wa (佤語方言研究). Beijing: The Ethnic Publishing House (民族出版社)
  7. 中國孟高棉語族語言與南亞語系 [The Mon-Khmer languages in China and Austro-Asiatic languages]
    Yan, Qixiang 顏其香 and Zhizhi Zhou 周植志. 1995. 中國孟高棉語族語言與南亞語系 [The Mon-Khmer languages in China and Austro-Asiatic languages]. Beijing: Minzu University of China Press (中央民族大學出版社).
  8. Dictionary of Wa (2 vols)
    Watkins, Justin. 2013. Dictionary of Wa (2 vols). Leiden: Brill. 1211pp.
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