Where South Wa is spoken
South Wa is spoken in 2 countries: China and Myanmar.
On the map, South Wa is drawn as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18613195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks South Wa.
How many people speak South Wa?
Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.
Status: Not endangered. Glottolog lists it as not endangered: it is still being passed on to children.
Where South Wa sits in the language family tree
Glottolog classifies South Wa as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.
- Austroasiatic
- Khasi-Palaung
- Palaungic
- East Palaungic
- Waic
- Wa-Lawa
- Nuclear Waic
- South Wa
Related languages
Other languages in the Nuclear Waic group:
More about South Wa
Codes: ISO 639-3 prk, Glottolog para1301. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.
Questions about South Wa
Where is South Wa spoken?
South Wa is spoken in China and Myanmar. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.
Which language family is South Wa in?
Glottolog places South Wa in the Austroasiatic family, in the branch Khasi-Palaung, Palaungic, East Palaungic, Waic, Wa-Lawa and Nuclear Waic.