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        <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Wes Cos,Cameroon Creole English
 
 
<b>Description:</b>
 
Cameroonian Pidgin English, or Cameroonian Creole, is a linguistic entity of Cameroon. It is also known as Kamtok (from 'Cameroon-talk'). Five varieties are currently recognised:
Cameroonian Pidgin English is an English-based creole language. About 5% of Cameroonians are native speakers of the language, while an estimated 50% of the population speak it in some form.
The terms “Cameroonian Pidgin”, “Cameroonian Pidgin English”, “Cameroonian Creole” and “Kamtok” are synonymous appellations of what Cameroonians call Cameroon Pidgin English. It is a variety of West African Pidgin Englishes spoken along the coast from Ghana to Cameroon. It is a vehicular language that has been in active use in the country for over 500 years. It came into being in the Slave Trade Years (1400-1800). It preceded English in Cameroon: the first Baptist missionaries who arrived Cameroon in 1845 and introduced formal education in English, had to learn Pidgin. A few decades later during the German annexation period (1884-1914), Pidgin resisted a German ban. It took flight when it became a makeshift language used in German plantations and undertakings by forced labourers who were drawn from the hinterland and<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=2067201 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Pidgin, Cameroon Language Speakers</h2>
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5.129569, 11.438057, Cameroon
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        <tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>
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<tr><td>Grammar:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_wes_morsyn-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_wes_morsyn-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Orthography:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_wes_ortho-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_wes_ortho-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
 
<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/cameroon Cameroon]</td></tr>
 
<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>
 
<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/africa Africa]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>wes</td></tr>
 
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      <tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Creole Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[English based Creole Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Creole Atlantic English based Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Krio Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Pidgin, Cameroon Language]]</b>
 
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