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    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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  • 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 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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  • Basaa (also spelled Bassa, Basa, Bissa), or Mbene, is a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon by the Basaa people. It is spoken by about 300,000 people in...
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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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  • 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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  • and Mungo peoples of Cameroon. Douala 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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  • Bamileke people in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon. The languages, which might constitute two branches of Eastern Grassfields, are: Western Bamileke:...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Jimi (Djimi), also known as Jimjimən and 'Um Falin, is a Chadic language spoken in Cameroon in Far North Province on the Nigerian border in and around Bourrha...
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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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  • Fang is a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. "Fang" is the name of the village the language is spoken in. There are three tones; high, mid, and low...
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    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 Luo language is an unclassified language spoken in a section of the Atta region of Cameroon. It is a critically endangered language, or possibly extinct...
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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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    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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    and long examples of all ten vowel qualities. The orthography in angle brackets was based on the General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages as used by Matateyou...
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  • Cameroonian (category Language and nationality disambiguation pages)
    Pidgin English Languages of Cameroon Cameroonian cuisine All pages with titles beginning with Cameroonian Cameroons or British Cameroon, a former British...
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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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  • Atong (Atoŋ) is a Grassfields language of Cameroon and closely related to the languages Menka [mea] and Manta [myg]. Atong at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)...
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  • Bati is a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. Bati at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie...
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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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  • 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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    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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    Latin alpha (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    open front unrounded vowel. It has the shape of a script-a. Also in the General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages, ⟨Ɑ ɑ⟩ usually represents an open back unrounded...
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