Wawu language

Wawu (or perhaps Vavu; Russian transcription Вавуски) 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).

Wawu
Vavu
Region	West Africa (Ghana?)
Extinct	Attested late 18th century
Language family	unclassified
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	wavu1234

Data

A few words of Wawu are recorded. Numerals are as follows, with ⟨y⟩ substituted for German ⟨j⟩.^[1]

1 baba

2 bauli

3 yanna

4 tofla

5 guena

6 brong

7 yegra

8 khiboa

9 boafri

10 magro

11 tobno

12 donu

A sentence has also been recorded:

[Christ] esoaree, amboaree anyembo

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