Gratien G. Atindogbe

Gratien G. Atindogbé is a Linguistics and African Languages Professor at the University of Buea, Cameroon. He obtained a PhD in African Linguistics from the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Besides  phonology, his speciality, he teaches language planning, sociolinguistics, research methodology, and language acquisition courses. His research interests cover descriptive linguistics, documentation of endangered languages, historical linguistics (Bantu), tonology, Cameroon Pidgin English, Intercultural Communication, French Sociolinguistics and Cameroon Sign Language (CSL). He was the project leader in the documentation of two endangered languages of Cameroon funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, and presently a key member of the project KPAAM-CAM (Key multidisciplinary advances in African multilingualism, Cameroon) initiated by Jeff Good and Pier Paolo Di Carlo and funded by United States National Science Foundation (NSF). He is an alumnus of renowned grant donors in Germany. Gratien has many scientific publications and reviews many academic journals.

Recent publications:

Atindogbé, Gratien (To appear). Language endangerment in Cameroon: State of affairs and prospect. In Evgeniya Gutova and Alireza Korangy (Eds.), Multilingualism, identity, and language endangerment in Africa. Springer Reference Series, Springer.

Atindogbé, Gratien (To appear). Barombi (A41). In Lutz Marten, Ellen Hurst-Harosh, Nancy C. Kula and Jochen Zeller (Eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages. Oxford University Press.

Atindogbé, Gratien G. and Dissake Koumassol (2023). ‘Francophones’ and ‘Anglophones’ in Cameroon: Official bilingualism, language competition and everyday practice. In Tony Chafer, Margaret A. Majumdar (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Francophone Africa. Routledge.

Atindogbé, Gratien (2023). The limits of exclusive official bilingualism in Cameroon: Lessons from the COVID-19 era. In George Echu (Ed.), Official Language Bilingualism in Cameroon: Current Insights and Dynamics. L’Harmattan.

Anne Yosseu and Atindogbé Gratien G. (2023). At the left edge of words in Mbə́mà as spoken in Cameroon Western Region (Au bord gauche des mots en Mbə́mà tel qu'il est parlé dans la région de l’Ouest du Cameroun).
Revue Africaniste Interdisciplinaire, No. 51.