Wa language

Wa
Va, Vo, Awa
Region	China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand
Ethnicity	Wa
Native speakers	900,000 (2000–2008)[1]
Language family	Austroasiatic Khasi–Palaungic Palaungic Waic Wa
Writing system	Latin script Formerly: Chinese characters, Shan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: prk – Parauk wbm – Vo vwa – Awa
Glottolog	waaa1245
ELP	Wa
	Phalok[2]
Wa is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

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. David Bradley (1994) estimates there are total of 820,000 Wa speakers.