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Wawa
Native toCameroon
RegionAdamawa Province, Mayo-Banyo Division, Bankim Subdivision, west of Banyo, thirteen villages
Native speakers
(3,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Benue–Congo
      • Mambiloid
        • Mambila–Konja
          • Mambila–Vute
            • Tep–Vute
              • Vute
                • Wawa
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.[2]

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

  1. ^ Wawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b 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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