Zaiwa language
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Not to be confused with Atsi dialect of Fang.
Zaiwa (autonym: tsau³¹va⁵¹; 载瓦; Burmese: ဇိုင်ဝါး/အဇီး) is a Burmish language spoken in parts of southwest China and eastern Burma. There are around 100,000 speakers. It is also known as Atsi, its name in Jingpo. Zaiwa may be spelled 'Tsaiva' or 'Tsaiwa', and Atsi may be spelled 'Aci', 'Aji', 'Atshi', 'Atzi' or 'Azi'. Other names include Atsi-Maru, Szi and Xiaoshanhua.[1] Pela (Bola), with 400 speakers, was once classified as a dialect. From the 1950s Zaiwa was written using the Roman script. A Gospel of Mark was published in Zaiwa in 1938 in the Fraser alphabet and in 1951 in the Roman script.[2][3]
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Zaiwa | |
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Tsaiwa, Tsaiva | |
Pronunciation | IPA: [tsau³¹va⁵¹] |
Native to | China, Burma |
Native speakers | 150,000 (2021)[1] |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | atb |
Glottolog | zaiw1241 |
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