Wawa language

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Wawa
Native to Cameroon
RegionAdamawa Province, Mayo-Banyo Division, Bankim Subdivision, west of Banyo, thirteen villages
Native speakers
(3,000 cited 1991) [1]
Niger–Congo?
Dialects
  • Gandua
Language codes
ISO 639-3 www
Glottolog wawa1246
ELP Wawa

Wawa is a Mambiloid language spoken in a region of Cameroon and just inside bordering Nigeria used by about 3,000 people in three main dialects. [2]

All speakers are bilingual, often in Fulfulde. [2]

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ Wawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen, "Documenting Wawa – a Mambiloid language in the Cameroon-Nigeria borderland", http://www.uni-koeln.de/gbs/Berichte/Wawa/


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