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Cameroon Arabic

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Author(s): George Echu
Literature on the state of Arabic in Cameroon is almost unavailable, if not non-existent. Several works that dwell on the description of Cameroonian languages have little or nothing to offer in this domain, not even the most recently published directory of Cameroonian languages by Bitjaʾa Kody (2003). Yet the presence of Arabic on Cameroonian soil as an indigenous, vehicular, and foreign language makes this language too important to be overlooked. This entry is therefore an attempt to present a linguistic picture of Arabic as it is known and used in Cameroon. 1. Language situation in Came…
Date: 2018-09-15