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Name: Wa
Type: Language
Alternate Names: K'awa; Kawa; Va; Vo; Wa Pwi; Wakut; Awa; Vü; Wa-Vü; Paraok; Praok; Parauk; Baraog
Spoken in: Myanmar, China
Number of speakers: 40,000 (2000). Many monolinguals (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 838000 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: wbm
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Austro-Asiatic
Parent Subgroup: Wa (waaa)
Child Dialects: Kentung Wa; Wa; Kentung (wbm-ken) La (wbm-lax) En (wbm-enx) Son (wbm-son) Wa Lon (wbm-wal) Wu (wbm-wux)

Endangerment Status

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

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