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CameroonPidginLanguage
The CameroonPidginLanguage is a KrioGroupLanguage of Cameroon. SIL code: WES. ISO 639-2: cpe. Population: (2,000,000 mainly second language users, 1989 UBS). Region: Primarily in South West and North West provinces, and widespread elsewhere. Alternate names: WES COS, CAMEROON CREOLE ENGLISH. Comments: Similar to Krio of Sierra Leone and Pidgin English of various West African countries, probably an offshoot of 19th century Krio. Also similar to Sranan (Ian Hancock). There are dialect variations. A growing number of first language speakers. Used by the police, prisons, urban school children at play since 1884. Now the most widespread lingua franca in Cameroon, used by about half the population (Todd and Hancock 1986). Trade language. Literacy rate in first language: Below 1%. Literacy rate in second language: Below 5%. Bible portions 1966.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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InstancesAtlanticEnglishBasedCreoleLanguageAn AtlanticEnglishBasedCreoleLanguage is an EnglishBasedCreoleLanguage that evolved in areas in and near the AtlanticOcean.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 ContentBearingPhysicalUn Object o Process que expresa contenido. Esto cubre los Objects que contienen una Proposition, como un libro, así como un ManualSignLanguage, por lo que puede contener una Proposition.
 CreoleLanguageA CreoleLanguage is a PidginLanguage that has developed and become the mother tongue for a community of people. This process is called 'creolization' and results in an expanded vocabulary and grammar structure that allow for communication as rich and complex as that of non-creole languages. While pidgins are regarded as reduced languages, creoles are considered expanded languages. That is, while pidgins develop to enable communication in relatively isolated domains, creoles allow for a full range of expressive possibilities on a par with more 'recognized' languages.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 EnglishBasedCreoleLanguageAn EnglishBasedCreoleLanguage is a CreoleLanguage using a grammatical and core lexical foundation of the EnglishLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 EntityLa clase universal de individuos. Es el nodo principal de la ontología.
 HumanLanguageLa subclass de Languages usados o sea «lenguajes naturales» por Humans.
 KrioGroupLanguageA KrioGroupLanguage is any of four AtlanticEnglishBasedCreoleLanguages, including KrioLanguage, spoken in West Africa.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 LanguageUn sistema de signos para expresar pensamientos. El sistema puede ser natural o artificial, por ejemplo, algo que emerge poco a poco como un artefacto cultural o algo se crea intencionalmente por una persona o grupo de personas.
 LinguisticExpressionEsta es la subclase de ContentBearingPhysical que es relacionada con idiomas. Note que esta Class abarca ambos Language y los elementos de Languages, por ejemplo Words «palabras».
 PhysicalUna entidad que tiene ubicación en espacio-tiempo. Note que las ubicaciones se entienden tener sitio en espacio-tiempo.
 SpokenHumanLanguageUn SpokenHumanLanguage es un HumanLanguage en el que se utiliza la voz humana como medio. También se puede representarlo visualmente por the escritura aunque no todos los idiomas tienen una forma de escritura codificada.
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