Cameroonian English

Cameroon English
Cameroon English
Region	Cameroon
Native speakers	17 million Anglophone Cameroonian (2011)
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Ingvaeonic Anglo-Frisian Anglic English Cameroon English; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Old English Middle English Early Modern English ; ;
Writing system	Latin (English alphabet); Unified English Braille
Official status
Official language in	Cameroon
Language codes
ISO 639-1	en
ISO 639-2	eng
ISO 639-3	eng
Glottolog	came1256
IETF	en-CM
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Cameroon English is an English dialect spoken predominantly in Cameroon, mostly learned as a second language.^[2] It shares some similarities with English varieties in neighbouring West Africa, as Cameroon lies at the west of Central Africa.^[3] It is primarily spoken in the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon.^[4]

It is a postcolonial variety of English, long in use in the territory (Southern Cameroons, now split into Northwest and Southwest). Over the years, it has developed characteristic features, particularly in lexis but also in phonology and grammar. Those characteristics were once regarded as errors but are now increasingly accepted as distinctive Cameroonian contributions to the English language.

^ Georg Wolf, Hans (2001). English in Cameroon. New York. ISBN 9783110170535.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Cite error: The named reference Routledge was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Kouega (2007): "Cameroon is a Central African country whose variety of English shares a number of features with West African Englishes."
^ Anchimbe, Eric A. "Multilingual backgrounds and the identity issue in Cameroon." Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca" Julio de Urquijo" 39.2 (2011): 33-48.

[1] Georg Wolf, Hans (2001). English in Cameroon. New York. ISBN 9783110170535.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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[3] Kouega (2007): "Cameroon is a Central African country whose variety of English shares a number of features with West African Englishes."

[4] Anchimbe, Eric A. "Multilingual backgrounds and the identity issue in Cameroon." Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca" Julio de Urquijo" 39.2 (2011): 33-48.

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