Wawa language

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.[3]

Wawa
Native toCameroon
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 639-3www
Glottologwawa1246
ELPWawa[2]

All speakers are bilingual, often in Fulfulde.[3]

References
  1. Wawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Wawa.
  3. 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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