Pidgin, Cameroon
A language of Cameroon
| Population | No estimate available. |
| Region | Primarily South West and North West provinces; widespread elsewhere. |
| Alternate names | Cameroon Creole English, Wes Cos |
| Dialects | Similar to Krio [kri] of Sierra Leone and Pidgin English of various West African countries; probably an offshoot of 19th century Krio. Also similar to Sranan [srn] (I. Hancock). There are dialect variations. |
| Classification | Creole, English based, Atlantic, Krio |
| Language use | Trade language. 2,000,000 mainly L2 users (1989 UBSA). Growing number of L1 speakers. Since 1884 used by police, prisons, urban school children at play. Now the most widespread lingua franca in Cameroon, used by about half the population (Todd and Hancock 1986). |
| Language development | NT: 2002. |
| Writing system | Latin script. |
Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:
Academic Publications
BOUTWELL, Katrina, author. 2001. An assessment of the creolization of Cameroon Pidgin English.
Ethnologue: Web |
Ethnologue: Print |
Bibliography |
Publications Catalog |
Software |
Email Updates
Who we are |
Shopping cart |
Site search |
Site map |
Home
Bibliography data last updated: April-2012
Contact us
Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | External links
Copyright © 2012 SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics)
