Languages In Cameroon Essay

Languages
As a heritage of Cameroon’s colonial past as the colony for the France and United Kingdom from 1916 to 1960, the official languages are French and English. There are approximately 250 languages that can be found in Cameroon which include the Ewondo and Bulu, Duala, Bamileke languages and Fulfulde. 8 of 10 regions that can be found in Cameroon are primarily francophone which it represents 83% of the country’s population and 2 regions in Cameroon is Anglophone which it represents 17%. Francophone is defined as belonging to a population using French as its first or sometimes second language. Anglophone is defined as when people who can speak in English especially in a country with two or more languages are spoken. The nation strives toward the bilingualism but in reality, there are only few of the Cameroonians can speak both French and English.
The government has established several bilingual schools in order to teach the people both languages. However, most of the schools are separate the Anglophone and francophone sections, thus they did not provide a true bilingual experience. Among the uneducated people, the Cameroonian Pidgin English functioning as a lingua franca in English speaking area and in many neighbourhoods in Douala. Both languages are taught these schools, but only those who

The trees will grow in more than 200 feet tall. There are huge amounts of orchids and ferns which can be found in Cameroon. The mangroves are usually grows along coasts and at rivers. The rainforest will gives way to the semi-evergreen forest in the central region, where a number of tree species shed their leaves when it started to the dry season. In the North of the semi-evergreen forest, the plant life is composed of the wooded savanna with scattered trees 10 to 60 feet