Languages of Cameroon

Today, Cameroon is one of the African countries with the highest number of people with knowledge of German.

[11] Most people in the English-speaking Northwest and Southwest provinces speak Cameroonian Pidgin English, also called Kamtok, as a lingua franca.

[13] Camfranglais (or Frananglais) is a relatively new pidgin communication form emerging in urban areas and other locations where Anglophone and Francophone Cameroonians meet and interact.

With a population estimated in 25 million people, UNESCO classified the country as a distinctive cultural density.

The National Institute of Statistics of Cameroon reported that four percent of the indigenous languages have disappeared since 1950.

[182] The 2012 edition of the Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) provides the following classification of the Niger–Congo languages of Cameroon.

Knowledge of French in Cameroon in 2005, according to the OIF . [ 1 ] In 2005 18% of the population were "real" French speakers and another 26.8% were "partial French speakers". Both figures are estimations.
Map of Cameroon's official languages . Blue: French speaking regions and countries. Red: English speaking regions and countries. Grey: Trilingual Spanish , Portuguese and French speaking country ( Equatorial Guinea ).
Map of the region's indigenous languages .