Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2017. — 314 p. — ISBN: 9789027238269. Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE) is an English-lexified Atlantic expanded pidgin/creole spoken in some form by an estimated 50% of Cameroon’s population, primarily in the anglophone west regions, but also in urban centres throughout the country. Primarily a spoken language, CPE enjoys a vigorous oral...
Publisher: Bafut, Cameroon
Publication date: 2006
Number of pages: 73
Pidgin is believed to have started back in the 15th century with the arrival of the Portuguese on the African coast. By the 17th century many other European and African ethnic groups had begun using it in their contacts and transactions with each other and had contributed to its evelopment. By the 19th...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 1443885991, 13 978-1443885997. This volume represents a comprehensive description of the structure of Cameroonian Pidgin, including an overview of its socio-cultural context, writing system, sounds, word formation, word classes and sentence structures. It comprises a corpus of 540 Cameroonian Pidgin proverbs and a rich...
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