Wa language

E220623

The Wa language is a Mon–Khmer language spoken primarily by the Wa people in parts of Myanmar and China.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Wa language canonical 7

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austroasiatic language
Mon–Khmer language
language
belongsToBranch Palaungic
surface form: Northern Palaungic
closelyRelatedTo Angku language
Bulang language
Palaung language
country China
Myanmar
ethnicity Wa people
hasAlternativeName Awa
Parauk
Va
Vo
hasConsonantClusters initial clusters allowed
hasDialect Awa dialect
Kawa dialect
Parauk dialect
Vo dialect
hasEndangermentStatus vulnerable
hasGlottocode wala1267
hasISO6393Code wbm
hasLinguisticTypology analytic language
hasMorphologicalType isolating language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasSpeakerPopulationStatus minority language
hasStandardizedOrthography true
hasSyllableStructure (C)(C)V(C)
hasVowelSystem multiple monophthong vowels
hasWritingSystem Burmese-based script
Chinese-based script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isTonal false
languageFamily Austroasiatic
surface form: Austroasiatic languages
region Southeast Asia
spokenBy Wa people
spokenIn China
Myanmar
Shan State
Yunnan Province
surface form: Yunnan
subfamily Palaungic languages
subgroup Angkuic languages
usedFor education in some Wa communities
local administration in Wa areas
usedIn Wa State
wordOrder SVO
writingSystemDevelopedIn 1950s

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Austroasiatic hasLanguage Wa language
Palaungic hasLanguage Wa language
Palaung language closelyRelatedTo Wa language
Waic hasSubgroup Wa language
Waic branch hasMemberLanguage Wa language
Palaungic languages hasLanguage Wa language
Wa people language Wa language