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 (

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), 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 .István Fodor, 1975

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''Pallas und andere afrikanische Vokabularien vor dem 19. Jahrhundert: Ein Beitrag zur Forschungsgeschichte.'' (''Kommentare zu Peter Simos Pallas, Linguarum totius orbis vocabularia comparativa'', 1.) Hamburg: Helmut Buske, p. 132–137. :1 :2 :3 :4 :5 :6 :7 :8 :9 :10 :11 :12 A sentence has also been recorded: :

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loves me, has washed me with blood'

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{{Reflist Unclassified languages of Africa Languages attested from the 18th century Languages extinct in the 19th century