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Referring to literacy data in the official languages of the population aged 12 years and over according to the 2005 Cameroon census, 6,405,981 people speak French as their main official language, with another 1,293,502 people able to speak both French and English. [1] The total number of French speakers in Cameroon is 6,405,981 people. [2]
Cameroon is a Francophone and Anglophone country, where, as of 2024, 11.957 million (41.17%) out of 29.124 million people speak French. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The nation strives toward bilingualism , but in reality very few (11.6%) Cameroonians are literate in both French and English, and 28.8% are literate in neither. [ 9 ]
Camfranglais (French pronunciation: [kamfʁɑ̃ɡlɛ] ⓘ), Francanglais, or Francamglais (portmanteau of the French adjectives camerounais, français, and anglais) is a vernacular of Cameroon, containing grammatical and lexical elements from Cameroonian French, Cameroonian English and Cameroonian Pidgin English, in addition to lexical contributions from various indigenous languages of Cameroon.
A man from Labé, Guinea, speaking Pular and West African French. African French (French: français africain) is the generic name of the varieties of the French language spoken by an estimated 167 million people in Africa in 2023 or 51% of the French-speaking population of the world [1] [2] [3] spread across 34 countries and territories.
Cameroon's population of nearly 31 million people speak 250 native languages, in addition to the national tongues of English and French, or both. Early inhabitants of the territory included the Sao civilisation around Lake Chad and the Baka hunter-gatherers in the southeastern rainforest.
Elsewhere, French is the principal second language, although pidgin and some local languages such as Ewondo, the dialect of a Beti clan from the Yaoundé area, have a wide currency. In Far North Region the northernmost constituent province of Cameroon, Mafa Language Arab Shuwa (an Arab dialect) and is spoken by the Baggara Arabs (also called ...
Bafaw-Balong language; Bafia language (Cameroon) Baka language; Baldemu language; Balo language; Bamali language; Bambalang language; Bamileke languages; Bamukumbit language; Bamum language; Bana language; Bangandu language; Bangolan language; Bankon language; Basaa language; Bata language; Bati language (Cameroon) Batu language; Beba language ...
French is an administrative language and is commonly but unofficially used in the Maghreb states, Mauritania, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.As of 2023, an estimated 350 million African people spread across 34 African countries can speak French either as a first or second language, mostly as a secondary language, making Africa the continent with the most French speakers in the world. [2]