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After the ceasefire, the Myanmar government began to call the region "Shan State Special Region No. 2 (Wa Region)" [20]: 111–112 (Parauk: Hak Tiex Baux Nong (2) Meung Man; [21] Chinese: 缅甸掸邦第二特区; Burmese: "ဝ" အထူးဒေသ(၂)). In 1990s, Wa State obtained Southern area by force. From 1999 to 2002, 80,000 former ...
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 .
Today, Burmese is the primary language of instruction, and English is the secondary language taught. [9] English was the primary language of instruction in higher education from late 19th century to 1964, when Gen. Ne Win mandated educational reforms to "Burmanise". [10] English continues to be used by educated urbanites and the national ...
The Palaungic or Palaung–Wa languages are a group of nearly 30 Austroasiatic languages, with scholars disagreeing on exactly which languages to include in the classification. They are spoken in scattered pockets across an inland region of Southeast Asia, centered on the borders between Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and China.
Myanmar's government declared the area to be administered by the Wa people, under the official name Wa Special Region 2. Its territory is entirely under the control of the de facto independent Wa State. [4] Hopang and Pan Lon were directly controlled by the Tatmadaw until their transfer to Wa State in January 2024. [1] [5]
The Wa States was the name formerly given to the Wa Land, the natural and historical region inhabited mainly by the Wa people, an ethnic group speaking an Austroasiatic language. The region is located to the northeast of the Shan States of British Burma , in the area of present-day Shan State of northern Myanmar (Burma) and the western zone of ...
The Wa States in an early 20th century The Imperial Gazetteer of India map.. The Wa people (Wa: Vāx; Burmese: ဝလူမျိုး, [wa̰ lùmjóʊ]; Chinese: 佤 族; pinyin: Wǎzú; Thai: ว้า) are a Southeast Asian ethnic group that lives mainly in Northern Myanmar, in the northern part of Shan State and the eastern part of Kachin State, near and along Myanmar's border with China ...
Wa–Lawa–La Wa proper Wa; Lawa. Bo Luang; Umphal; The recently discovered Meung Yum and Savaiq languages [1] [2] of Shan State, Burma also belong to the Wa language cluster. Other Waic languages in Shan State, eastern Myanmar are En and Siam (Hsem), [3] [4] which are referred to by Scott (1900) [5] as En and Son.