German language in Cameroon
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| speaker | about 230,000 (2015) | |
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Cameroon is a multilingual country, although German is mostly learned as a foreign language today. The official languages are French (around 80% of the population, in the north) and English (around 20% of the population, in the south), according to the allocation of the administrative districts after the First and Second World Wars ( League of Nations mandates / UN trusteeship). Around 230,000 people speak German as a foreign language in Cameroon.
Place names, inscriptions and signs
Some place names in Cameroon still have a German name such as B. Lolodorf . Other place names have been changed, such as B. Yaoundé in Yaoundé .
In the German cemeteries that were established in Cameroon during the colonial period, inscriptions can still be seen on the graves. There are also German-language signs there.
Cameroon Germans
At the time of the German colony of Cameroon , Germans emigrated to Cameroon from 1884. From 1897 to 1912, the number of Cameroonians rose from 181 to around 1,000 people. Between 1925 and 1939 this number rose again in connection with the plantation economy on the Cameroon Mountain . Almost all Germans were expelled from the country in 1914-16 or 1939.
Cameroonian Education
There is a Goethe Institute in Yaounde, a German school since 2009 and a German kindergarten since 2013. In 2010, more than 220,000 Cameroonians learned the German language in 1,115 schools. The relatively high number of German learners in Cameroon is less related to German colonial rule than to the special features of the imported French school system . In Cameroon it is also possible to study German , such as B. in Yaounde since 1997. In 2016, 7336 Cameroonians took the opportunity to study in Germany . This makes Germany the second most popular study destination for Cameroonians. There is also an association of German-speaking writers in Africa.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Goethe-Institut, u. a .: Africa - German learner figures. Retrieved December 23, 2015 .
- ↑ http://www.yaounde.de/liliane/?p=565 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/2012/region-sued_ Republik- kamerun.html
- ↑ http://www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/kamerun.htm
- ↑ a b Dirk Bathe: When German means future. In: Deutsche Welle . November 29, 2010, accessed December 23, 2015 .
- ↑ http://www.foerderverein-dsj.de/de/index.php?content=perspektiven
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
