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Languages
Some 250 languages spoken in Cameroon, with their speakers and families.
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- Caka languageCaka is a Tivoid language of Cameroon. Dialects are Batanga and Asaka.
- Cambap languageCambap, or Twendi as it is also known, is a nearly extinct Mambiloid language of Cameroon. Speakers have largely shifted to the closely related language Kwanja, and Cambap has not been passed down to children for decades.
- Cameroonian Pidgin EnglishCameroonian Pidgin English, or Cameroonian Creole (Cameroon Pidgin: Wes Cos, from West Coast), is a language variety of Cameroon also known as Kamtok (from 'Cameroon-talk') which, like other varieties of West African Pidgin English originated as a language of contact between colonizing British and African slave traders for the transatlantic slave trade.
- Central KanuriCentral Kanuri or Yerwa Kanuri, is a variety of the Kanuri language spoken mainly in adjacent parts of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, and Chad, as well as by a diaspora community residing in Sudan.
- Chadian Arabic9 million people in Chad, both rural and urban inhabitants. Most of its speakers live in central and southern Chad. Its range is an east-to-west oval in the Sahel. Nearly all of this territory is within Chad and parts of Western Sudan in Darfur along the border region.
- Chamba LekoChamba Leko is one of two languages spoken by the Chamba people, the other being Chamba Daka. It is a member of the Leko branch of Savanna languages, and is spoken across the northern Nigerian–Cameroonian border.
- Chung languageChung (Cung) is an Eastern Beboid language of Cameroon.
- Cuvok languageCuvok (French: Tchouvok) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon.
