Country Info

Cameroon Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 17,821,364 people (71% of Cameroon) that can read or write at least one language.

27 Writing Systems used in Cameroon

French (Latin)

fr-latn
language code
16,996,532
people

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
9,498,062
people

Bulu (Latin)

bum-latn
language code
1,149,765
people

Fulah (Latin)

ff-latn
language code
899,816
people

Ewondo (Latin)

ewo-latn
language code
774,841
people

Yemba (Latin)

ybb-latn
language code
399,918
people

Ghomala (Latin)

bbj-latn
language code
349,928
people

Ngiemboon (Latin)

nnh-latn
language code
349,928
people

Kom (Latin)

bkm-latn
language code
324,933
people

Basaa (Latin)

bas-latn
language code
299,938
people

Bamun (Bamum)

bax-bamu
language code
299,938
people

Medumba (Latin)

byv-latn
language code
274,943
people

Mundang (Latin)

mua-latn
language code
249,949
people

Mafa (Latin)

maf-latn
language code
184,962
people

Bafut (Latin)

bfd-latn
language code
142,470
people

Akoose (Latin)

bss-latn
language code
134,972
people

Kako (Latin)

kkj-latn
language code
134,972
people

Duala (Latin)

dua-latn
language code
119,975
people

Metaʼ (Latin)

mgo-latn
language code
117,476
people

Arabic (Arabic)

ar-arab
language code
97,480
people

Ngomba (Latin)

jgo-latn
language code
84,982
people

Bafia (Latin)

ksf-latn
language code
79,983
people

Aghem (Latin)

agq-latn
language code
34,992
people

Hausa (Arabic)

ha-arab
language code
34,992
people

Kwasio (Latin)

nmg-latn
language code
8,998
people

Yangben (Latin)

yav-latn
language code
2,299
people

Fulah (Adlam)

ff-adlm
language code
0
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR