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Pangwa

Pangwa proper noun: a Bantu language of Tanzania.

Proper noun (1)

Pangwa

  1. A Bantu language of Tanzania.

Noun

Pangwa pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The people who speak that language.

Proper noun (2)

Pangwa

  1. A town in Shan State, Myanmar.
    • Along Myanmar’s 1,300-mile border with China, a town called Pangwa sits in a small valley, surrounded by forested peaks that are occasionally dusted with snow. For years, this hardscrabble outpost was controlled by an aging warlord, an ally of Myanmar’s brutal military junta, who ran his fiefdom...2025 July 18, Timothy McLaughlin, “A Rebel Army Is Building a Rare-Earth Empire on China's Border. The Kachin Independence Organization fought for decades in obscurity. Now it's supplying essential...

Questions about Pangwa

What does Pangwa mean?
Pangwa means a Bantu language of Tanzania.
What part of speech is Pangwa?
Pangwa can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Pangwa in the dictionary

  1. panguingue
  2. Panguipulli
  3. Panguitch
  4. pangulu
  5. pangulus
  6. Pangwa
  7. Pangwe
  8. Pangæa
  9. PANH
  10. panhandle
  11. Panhandle State

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