Wawa (language)
| Wawa | ||
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Spoken in |
Cameroon | |
| speaker | 3,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
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Wawa is an endangered mambiloid language spoken in a small region of central Cameroon and a neighboring neighborhood in eastern Nigeria .
The bantoid language is spoken in thirteen villages west of Banyo in the Bankim subdivision within the Mayo Banyo division in Adamaua sub-state .
Wawa is spoken by only 3,000 inhabitants in the two countries and has three main dialects, the largest of which is Gandua .
All speakers of the Wawa are bilingual and increasingly use the sole official language of French, while before French rule in Cameroon they also spoke Fulfulde and German (in German-Cameroon ).
Web links
- Map of the Wawa language from the LL map project
- Information about the Wawa language from the multi-tree project
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Society for Threatened Languages, "Documenting Wawa - a Mambiloid language in the Cameroon-Nigeria borderland", http://www.uni-koeln.de/gbs/Berichte/Wawa/