Awa

Awa (or variants) may refer to:

People

• Awa (given name), notable people named Awa or Hawa
• Awá (Brazil), an indigenous people of Brazil
• Awa-Kwaiker, an indigenous people of Colombia and Ecuador
• Wa people, a Southeast Asian ethnicity in Myanmar, China, and Thailand, mostly on the Awa mountain range

Languages

• Awa language (China) or Wa (Va) language, language of the Wa people of Burma and China
• 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 Awa, a Kukish language of Burma

Music

• Awa (musician) or Leena Peisa (born 1979), Finish musician
• AWA (singer) or Awa Santesson-Sey (born 1997), Swedish singer
• A-WA, Israeli hip-hop and world music band

Places

• Awa mountain, China, a mountain range in the Yunnan province
• Awa, Tokushima, Japan, a town
• Awa District, Chiba, Japan, a modern geographical administrative division
• Awa District, Tokushima, Japan, a modern geographical administrative division
• Awa Province (Chiba), Japan, a historical geographical administrative division
• Awa Province (Tokushima), Japan, a historical geographical administrative division
• Awa Station, a railway station in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan
• Inwa or Awa, Myanmar, imperial capital of Burmese kingdoms from the 14th to 19th centuries

Other uses

• Awa Society, a mask and initiatory society of the Dogon people of Mali
• Awa (magazine), a Senegalese women's magazine from 1964 to 1973
• Milkfish or awa, a tropical marine fish (Chanos chanos)
• Kava or ʻawa, a plant (Piper methysticum) consumed for its sedating effects throughout Polynesia

See also

• AWA (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Awa