18535 Somyev 1-9 "The speaker population of Somyev, a language that seems to be very closely related to Wawa, has decreased from twenty or so to three in the last ten or fifteen years (Connell 1998, 2010); in 1997, there were still around fifteen to twenty speakers (Connell 1998), whereas in 2008 there were only three or four left (Bruce Connell p.c. 2008)." Cultural Ecologies of Endangered Languages: the Case of Wawa and Njanga Off 3-4 1-9