Endurence Midinette Koumassol Dissake, Language and legal proceedings: Analyzing courtroom discourse in Cameroon
Africa is home to over two thousand living languages, of which around 275 are spoken in Cameroon. This makes it the African country with the second largest number of languages after Nigeria (Eberhard et al. 2022). The so-called national languages of Cameroon are relegated to home usage only, and th...
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Linguistique et Langues Africaines
2022
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| Gaia: | Africa is home to over two thousand living languages, of which around 275 are spoken in Cameroon. This makes it the African country with the second largest number of languages after Nigeria (Eberhard et al. 2022). The so-called national languages of Cameroon are relegated to home usage only, and the country has retained the languages of its former colonial masters — French and English — as its official languages. Cameroon also follows a bijural legal system with common law and civil law lega... |
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