Cameroonian Languages And The Trio Force Of Colonialism :The Case Of Borrowing In The Bantu Phylum

Fokou Mukum Sandy Fomundam (1)

1 UY1 - Université de Yaoundé I

Cameroon is that one country with a diversified linguistic background oweing to the fact that it has two official languages which are English and French and several dialects which are classified as national languages or dialects which cut across the four linguistic phyla of African languages and encompasses loan words from all of the languages spoken by its colonial masters namely ;English, French and German.The importance of diachronic explanations of universal patterns has been repeatedly emphasized in the typological linguistics. A diachronic perspective not only provides explanations of various typological quirks in terms of historical accidents rooted in a given grammaticalization source and path, but it also challenges in many ways a number of universal patterns established on the basis of synchronic data which unfolds in Cameroonian languages as time passes. This research gives a clear picture of the impacts of colonialism on Cameroonian languages.

Mots clés: Cameroon; Colonialism; language; Diachronic; Synchronic Dialects

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Fokou Mukum Sandy Fomundam. Cameroonian Languages And The Trio Force Of Colonialism :The Case Of Borrowing In The Bantu Phylum. 2021. ⟨hal-03104827⟩