Join our community of language learners to get started. It is a Bantu language believed to have originated from other languages, mainly Arabic, due to historical interactions between Arabs from the Middle East and East Africans. However, very few Cameroonians actually speak the two languages, and some even do not speak either of the languages.German served as the official language of Cameroon during the German colonial rule in the country till World War I. February 21, 2020 09:31 AM French and English are the official languages of Cameroon. You may have missed "Cameroon's national institute of statistics reports that four percent of the central African states' local languages — including the Mbiame language spoken in the country's English-speaking Northwest Region and the Ekung language in the South — have disappeared since 1950. The languages chosen, for now, are Ewondo, Bassa, Douala, Womala and Fufulde, because of their national popularity. Between 1916 and 1960, Cameroon served as the colony of both the United Kingdom and France. Cameroon Separatists Ignore Calls For Peaceful ElectionsCameroon’s Anglophone Separatists Turn to Infighting At the multilingual and inclusive government primary school Yaounde, 150 children between the ages of five and 11 years old learn how to count in Ewondo, a Cameroon national language spoken in the country's central and southern regions.
It is the second most spoken Semitic language in the world after Arabic, and is also the language of over 2 million Ethiopians living outside of the country.