Official Bilingualism or the Need for a Linguistic Unification in Cameroon

• Main Author: Ngami Kamagoua, Jeff Sterline
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2023
• Subjects: official bilingualism; linguistic unification; national integration; English-speaking; French-speaking; Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/jeal/vol2/iss1/6; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/jeal/article/1049/viewcontent/RA_5_Kamagoua.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

Cameroon inherited two languages, French and English, from France and United Kingdom administration (1916-1960) and adopted them, within the framework of reunification, as official languages, to achieve social cohesion, unity and national integration. The official bilingualism policy qualified as un...