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Most Awa women are monolingual to the Awa Pit language, while some men can speak both Spanish and Awa Pit and a very few of these Awa Pit speakers can both read and write the language. [3] Literacy among Awa speakers is less than 1% in their native language and under 5% in the secondary Spanish language. [4] The Awa people are mostly farmers.
The Awa traditionally hunt, gather, fish, and cultivate plants. Today, they also farm livestock, such as chickens, ducks, guinea pigs, and pigs. [3] They practice a form of agriculture called "slash and mulch," which involves clearing small parcels of land (about 1.25 to 5 acres) and leaving the fallen plants and trees to decay.
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.
Awa language (Papua New Guinea), a Kainantu language of Papua New Guinea; Awa Pit language, a Barbacoan language spoken by the Awa-Kwaiker people in Colombia and Ecuador; Awadhi language (ISO 639 code: awa), an Eastern Hindi language spoken in northern India; Guajá language or Awá, the language of the Awá people of Brazil; Khumi language or ...
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Awadhi [a] also known as Audhi, [b] is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh in northern India and in Terai region of western Nepal. [5] [6] [7] The name Awadh is connected to Ayodhya, the ancient city, which is regarded as the homeland of the Hindu deity Rama, the earthly avatar of Vishnu.
Spanish is the official and most commonly spoken language in Ecuador. Northern Quechua and other pre-colonial American languages were spoken by 2,300,000 in the past (Adelaar 1991). Ethnologue lists 24 languages of Ecuador: [2] Achuar–Shiwiar; Awa–Cuaiquer; Cha'palaachi; Cofán; Colorado; Ecuadorian Sign Language; Emberá languages; Media ...
There are three distinct dialects: [2] Asuriní (of Tocantins or Trocará), or Akwawa; Suruí (of Tocantins or Pará), or Akewara; Parakanã, Awaeté; Both the name Asuriní and Suruí are used for related peoples and their languages: Suruí of Jiparaná, Suruí of Rondônia, Asuriní of Xingú, etc.