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Language
Wawa
Native toCameroon
RegionAdamawa Province, Mayo-Banyo Division, Bankim Subdivision, west of Banyo, thirteen villages
Native speakers(3,000 cited 1991)
Language familyNiger–Congo?
Dialects
  • Gandua
Language codes
ISO 639-3www
Glottologwawa1246
ELPWawa

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.

All speakers are bilingual, often in Fulfulde.

References

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


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