Wawa language
Wawa | |
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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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wawa1246 [2] |
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]
All speakers are bilingual, often in Fulfulde.[3]
References
- ↑ Wawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Wawa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 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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