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Publication details [#43363]

Talla Sando Ouafeu, Yves. 2005. Lexical vestiges of English in the W$\tilde{e}$ language. English Today 21 (4) : 27–30.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | dialect1 | language change | language contact | language dominance

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper explores why there are so many English lexical residues in the W$\tilde{e}$ dialect, spoken in the Western province of Cameroon, although this part of the country used to be under French colonial rule.