Cameroon is home to at least 250 languages, with some accounts reporting around 600. These include 55 Afro-Asiatic languages, two Nilo-Saharan languages...
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onward. Cameroon is governed as a unitary presidential republic. The official languages of Cameroon are French and English, the official languages of former...
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The General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages is an orthographic system created in the late 1970s for all Cameroonian languages. Consonant and vowel letters...
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Fali comprises two languages spoken in northern Cameroon. Included in Greenberg's Adamawa languages (as group G11), it was excluded from that family by...
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The Ngemba languages are a group of Eastern Grassfields languages of the Western High Plateau of Cameroon. The languages are Awing (Mbweʼwi), Bafut–Beba...
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of Cameroon, Mafa Language Arab Shuwa (an Arab dialect) and is spoken by the Baggara Arabs (also called Arab Shuwa). Indigenous languages of Cameroon...
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and Mungo peoples of Cameroon. Duala belongs to the Bantu language family, in a subgroup called Sawabantu. It is a tonal language with subject–verb–object...
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Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, and small fractions of the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe. It is related to the Bulu and Ewondo languages of southern...
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language (also Itaŋikom) is the language spoken by the Kom people in Northwest Province in Cameroon. It is classified as a Central Ring language of the...
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The Yeni language is an extinct language of Cameroon, formerly spoken around Djeni Mountain in the Nyalang area. All that remains of the language, apparently...
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Bamileke languages (Bamileke languages: Bamiléké) are a group of Eastern Grassfields languages spoken by the Bamileke people in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon...
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border in Cameroon, with one language (Ngbaka) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and several languages with few speakers in the Republic of the Congo...
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The Eastern Grassfields languages, spoken in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon, are a branch of the Grassfields languages including Bamun, Yamba and...
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Chadic language that is spoken by the Hausa people in the northern parts of Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin and Togo, and the southern parts of Niger,...
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Achu Act of Berlin Modibo Adama Adamawa languages Adamawa Plateau Adamawa Region Administering Authority Administrative divisions of Cameroon Issa (Stay...
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The Beboid languages are any of several groups of languages spoken principally in southwest Cameroon, although two languages (Bukwen and Mashi) are spoken...
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Cameroon has a rich and diverse culture made up of a mix of about 250 indigenous populations and just as many languages and customs. The country is nicknamed...
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Grassfields languages (or Wide Grassfields languages) are a branch of the Southern Bantoid languages spoken in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon and some...
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a moribund Mbum language spoken by older adults in northern Cameroon. Dama, a closely related variety that may have been a dialect of Mono, is already...
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Cameroonian Pidgin English (redirect from Cameroon Pidgin language)
Cameroonian Creole (Cameroon Pidgin: Wes Cos, from West Coast), is a language variety of Cameroon. It is also known as Kamtok (from 'Cameroon-talk'). It is...
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The Manenguba languages, also known as the Mbo cluster, are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken on and around the Manenguba mountain range...
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Kirdi of northern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria. Several names are applied to the language, just as to the Fula people. They call their language Pulaar...
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is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved...
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language, Tunen (Banen), is a Bantu language of Cameroon. Maho (2009) considers Aling'a to be a distinct language. Unlike all other Bantu languages,...
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Ekoid languages are a dialect cluster of Southern Bantoid languages spoken principally in southeastern Nigeria and in adjacent regions of Cameroon. They...
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Be-bayaka, and Bibaya de L’est) is a dialect cluster of Ubangian languages spoken by the Baka Pygmies of Cameroon and Gabon. The people are ethnically close related...
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Arabic (redirect from History of the Arabic language)
especially languages where Islam is the predominant religion and countries that were conquered by Muslims. Some of the most influenced languages are Persian...
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The Masa languages are a group of closely related Chadic languages of southwestern Chad and northern Cameroon. The Masa languages listed in Blench (2006)...
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The twelve Mambiloid languages are languages spoken by the Mambila and related peoples mostly in eastern Nigeria and in Cameroon. In Nigeria the largest...
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Connell, 1997: Moribund Languages of the Nigeria-Cameroon Borderland Archived 2004-08-14 at the Wayback Machine The Endangered Languages Project: Bung v t e...
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