Indo-European · ISO 639-3 wes
Cameroon Pidgin Language Kamtok
Cameroon Pidgin is an Indo-European language spoken by about 2.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Cameroon Pidgin is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Cameroon Pidgin
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Germanic
- Northwest Germanic
- West Germanic
- North Sea Germanic
- Anglo-Frisian
- Anglic
- Later Anglic
- Middle-Modern English
- Macro-English
- Guinea Coast Creole English
- West African Creole English
- Coastal Nigerian Krio
- Cameroon Pidgin
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Cameroon Pidgin language
Cameroon Pidgin (Kamtok) is spoken by about 2.0 million people, which makes it the 318th most spoken language in the world — just behind Wagdi (2.0 million) and ahead of Yongbei Zhuang (2.0 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Coastal Nigerian Krio group within the Germanic branch.
Where is Cameroon Pidgin spoken?
Cameroon Pidgin is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Cameroon (2.0 million).
Cameroon Pidgin is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Cameroon Pidgin is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Nigerian Pidgin, Ghanaian Pidgin English, Krio, Jamaican Creole English, Trinidadian Creole English, English and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 wes.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.