Wawu language

Wawu (or perhaps Vavu; Russian transcription ) is an obscure language formerly spoken in West Africa that has not been classified. The only evidence for this language, assuming it is not spurious, is published in a late 18th-century source that includes two languages called "Wawu", the other being a dialect of Ewe. The consultant for the unclassified language called "Wawu" identified his people's neighbors as the Fra (Kasena), Bente, Naena, Gui, Guraa (Anyi), Guaflee and No (= Nejo, Bete).

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A few words of Wawu are recorded. Numerals are as follows, with substituted for German .

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A sentence has also been recorded:

[Christ]

'[Christ] loves me, has washed me with blood'

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