Wawa language
| Wawa | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Cameroon |
| Region | Adamawa Province, Mayo-Banyo Division, Bankim Subdivision, west of Banyo, thirteen villages |
Native speakers | (3,000 cited 1991)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
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| Dialects |
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| 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
- Marieke Martin, A grammar of Wawa: an endangered language of Cameroon, 2012
References
- ^ Wawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen, "Documenting Wawa – a Mambiloid language in the Cameroon-Nigeria borderland", http://www.uni-koeln.de/gbs/Berichte/Wawa/