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Languages
Some 250 languages spoken in Cameroon, with their speakers and families.
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- Pam languagePam is a nearly extinct, unclassified Mbum language of northern Cameroon. There are only about 30 speakers remaining in the vicinity of Tcholliré (Tcholliré commune, Mayo-Rey department, Northern Region).
- Pana languagePana is an Mbum language of the Central African Republic. A few thousand speak it in southern Chad and northern Cameroon. A dialect in Cameroon, Man, may be a separate language. Blench (2004) leaves Pondo and Gonge in CAR unclassified within the Mbum languages.
- Parkwa languageParkwa (Parəkwa), also Podoko, is an Afro-Asiatic language of Cameroon.
- Peve languageThe Pévé language, sometimes referred to as Lamé (the main dialect), is a member of the Masa branch of the Chadic family that is spoken in parts of Cameroon and the Republic of Chad.
- Pinyin languagePinyin is a Grassfields language spoken by some 27,000 people in the Northwest Region of Cameroon.
- Pol languagePol is a Bantu language of Cameroon. Pol proper is spoken in central Cameroon; the Pomo and Kweso dialects are spoken in Congo and the CAR near the Cameroonian border.
- Psikyɛ dialectPsikye (Psikya, Kapsiki) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and eastern Nigeria. Varieties include Psikyɛ and Zləngə. Blench (2006) classifies it as a dialect of Kamwe.