| LC control no. | sh 85144486 |
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| Topical heading | Wa (Asian people) |
| Variant(s) | Hkawa (Asian people) Kala (Asian people) Kawa (Asian people) Lawa (Asian people) Va (Asian people) Wa (Burmese people) Wah (Asian people) |
| See also | Ethnology--Burma Ethnology--China |
| Found in | Socio-economic life of the Wah national, 2004: t.p. (Wah) t.p. verso (Va tuiṅʻʺ raṅʻʺ sāʺ = Wa ethnic) Encyclopaedia Britannica online, viewed on April 30, 2019 (Wa people; also called Lawa, Va, Hkawa, Kawa, or Kala; peoples of the upland areas of eastern Myanmar (Burma) and southwestern Yunnan province of China; at the beginning of the 21st century, the Wa numbered approximately 600,000 in Myanmar and 350,000 in China, where they have been designated an official minority) |
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