It is quite incredible that on an area not larger than California 247 distinct languages could be spoken, but this is the case in Cameroon 247 indigenous languages, one so-called lingua franca ( def. any language widely used beyond the population of its native speakers is 'Cameroon Pidgin or Contact English' only spoken in West Cameroon) and two administrative languages (English and French) are spoken by 17 million people. This compares with 400 Chinese dialects spken by 1.3 billion Chinese people. Mind blowing.
Definition of Pidgin: A pidgin, or contact language, is the name given to any language created, usually spontaneously, out of a mixture of other languages as a means of communication between speakers of different tongues
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