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Name: Zaiwa
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Atsi; Maru; Tsaiwa; Zi; Atzi; Aji; Atshi; Aci; Azi; Atsi-Maru; Szi; Xiaoshanhua; Atši; Atśi
Spoken in: Myanmar, China
Number of speakers: 80,000 in China (1999 X. Xu). 20,000 monolinguals. Population total all countries: 110,000 (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 110000 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: atb
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Sino-Tibetan
Parent Subgroup: Northern Burmish; Northern; Burmese-Maru; Northern Unit (nbur)
Child Dialects: Polo (atb-pol) Langwa (atb-lan) Zaiwa; Tsaiwa (atb-zai)

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Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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