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cameroon pidgin language
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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Instancesatlantic english based creole languageAn AtlanticEnglishBasedCreoleLanguage is an EnglishBasedCreoleLanguage that evolved in areas in and near the AtlanticOcean.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 content bearing physicalAny Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition.
 creole languageA 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/)
 english based creole languageAn EnglishBasedCreoleLanguage is a CreoleLanguage using a grammatical and core lexical foundation of the EnglishLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 entityThe universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
 human languageThe subclass of Languages used by Humans.
 krio group languageA KrioGroupLanguage is any of four AtlanticEnglishBasedCreoleLanguages, including KrioLanguage, spoken in West Africa.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 languageA system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people.
 linguistic expressionThis is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words.
 physicalAn entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
 spoken human languageA SpokenHumanLanguage is a HumanLanguage which has as its medium the human voice. It can also be represented visually through writing, although not all SpokenHumanLanguages have a codified written form.
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