Approximately 5% of Cameroonians are native speakers of the language, while an estimated 50% of the population speak it in some form.

Several speakers of Cameroonian pidgin refer to Standard English as "Grammar", and recognize the difference between the two.

It is a variety of West African Pidgin Englishes spoken along the coast from Ghana to Cameroon.

With time it passed into use in the market place, and was adopted by Baptist missionaries as the language of their evangelical crusade.

For many years, it has been used on school playgrounds and campuses and in political campaigns, and today it is forcing its way into spoken media.

Some of these consonants, such as /r/ and /l/, are not distinguished by speakers who lack such distinctions in their local substrate languages (1966:225–229).

Wa boss bin call me for yi office, and question me for know the reason why i no take the boy.