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Cameroon

Cameroon is home to 232 languages, spoken across Central Africa. Explore them on the map or in the full list below.

Capital Yaounde
Nationality Cameroonian
Currency Central African CFA Franc (XAF)
Languages 232
Independence Jan 1, 1960
214 active 17 endangered 1 extinct

Where the languages are spoken

Each bubble marks where a language is centred in Cameroon; its size reflects how many people speak it there. Click a bubble for the source.

Active Endangered Extinct fewer / more speakers

Bubbles show a language's approximate centre, not its full extent. Speaker figures are our own estimates where a language lives in one country, and sourced per-country estimates where it crosses borders.

All languages in Cameroon

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Ambele Abo Afade Akoose Atong Awing Aghem 100K Akum Bakole Endangered Bakweri 25K Bangwa Bokyi Babanki Bafaw-balong Bakoko Baba Baka Bambalang Bamoun Bum Busam Beba bafanji Bafia Bakaka Bakundu-balue Baldamu Balo Balundu-bima Bamali Bamenyam Bamukumbit Bamunka Bangandu Bangolan Bankon Bansop Barombi Bassossi Bata Batanga Bati Endangered Bayangam Bebe Bebele Bebil Beezel Befang Bikya Endangered Bishuo Endangered Bitare Bomwali Bu Bubia Endangered Buduma Bumbung Endangered Busuu Endangered Buwal Byep Bana 40K Bambili-Bambui Basaa 800K Bulu 1.6M Bekwel Beti Chadian Caka Cung Cuvok Duupa 10K Daba Dama Dek Denya Dii Dimbong Endangered Doyayo Duala Dugun Dugwor Dzodinka Duli Extinct Ejagham Efik Elip Eman Endangered Esimbi Eton Evand Ewondo 2M Fula Fang Fali Fe'fe' Fungom Gaduwa Gavar Gbaya-Mbodomo Ghomala Gidar Gimme Gimnime Gyele Endangered Hdi Hausa Igbo Iceve-Maci Isu Endangered Jimi Kom Kako Karang Endangered Kemedzung Kenswei Nsei Kol Koonzime Kotoko Kuk Endangered Kwakum Kwanja Kenyang 1M Kwasio Limbum La’bi Laimbue Lefa Marghi Moghamo 200K Meta 90K Endangered Mafa Menka Mbum Makaa Malgbe Mambai Endangered Mambila Manta Massa Matal Mazagway Mbedam Mbuko Mefele Mengaka Mengisa Merey Mesaka Mfumte Mmaala Mmen Mofu-gudur Mokpwe Mousgoum Mousseye Moloko Mpande Mpongmpong Mundani Muyang Musgu Medumba 600K Mendankwe-Nkwen 100K Mbay Mbo 100K Mundang Ngemba 40K Endangered Nweh Ngie Njerep Endangered Ngamambo Ngombale Nso' 300K Nda'nda' Ndemli Nga'ka Ngoshie Ngwo Nomaande Noone North Fali Nugunu Nyong Oku Pinyin Parkwa Peere Pol Psikye Saari Sharwa So South Fali South Giziga Suga Tikar Tigon Mbembe Toupouri Tunen Tuki Usaghade Verre Vame Vengo Vute Wandala Weh Wushi Wumboko Wuzlam Yabassi Yamba Yambeta Yemba Zulgo-Gemzek

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