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

[12] Fulfulde serves the same function in the north, and Ewondo in much of the Center, South, and East provinces.

[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.