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]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Mambiloid Mambila–Konja Mambila–Vute Tep–Vute Vute Wawa
Dialects	Gandua
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`www`
Glottolog	`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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