Zaiwa (autonym: tsau³¹va⁵¹; 载瓦; Burmese: ဇိုင်ဝါး/အဇီး) is a Burmish language spoken in parts of southwest China and eastern Burma.
Other names include Atsi-Maru, Szi and Xiaoshanhua.
A Gospel of Mark was published in Zaiwa in 1938 in the Fraser alphabet and in 1951 in the Roman script.
[2][3] There are more than 70,000 Zaiwa speakers in Yunnan, China, including in:[4] The Ethnologue lists Bengwa, Longzhun and Tingzhu as dialects.
[citation needed] In Myanmar, the Sadon (Sadung) dialect is the standard variety.