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How Cameroon Plans to Save Disappearing Languages

Moki Edwin Kindzeka

   YAOUNDE - Cameroon is commemorating International Mother Language Day,
   February 21, by launching what it calls an ambitious program to save
   its endangered national languages.

   The central African state has over 260 national languages, but only 40
   are taught in schools. Cameroonians speak mostly French and English,
   which are foreign but official languages and part of an entrenched
   separatist conflict that has cost about 3,000 lives since 2017.

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