| Summary: | Due to the contact between Pidgin English and many languages in and out of Cameroon, a so-called “youth” Pidgin-English has emerged in English-speaking regions and especially in Buea. This paper examines the various characteristics of that new language. A close scrutiny of that language shows that based on the current kamtok, it contains a lot of borrowed lexical items from Cameroonian and even foreign languages. Many words and expressions undergo several modifications at the level of phonology / intonation / pronunciation, morphosyntax (derivation, change of grammatical category) and semantics (loan translation, idiomatic expressions (word express), transfer, periphrasis, onomatopoeias, etc.) The sociolinguistic approach in general as been adopted to carry out analysis and the corpus gathered for this study has been collected through interview and participant observation from young pidgin speakers, mostly students in Buea.
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