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Show African Ruler Devises Language of His Own A few years ago Njoya, king of Founibun, in the Cameroons, became jealous of Ihe particularly good set of secret languages of neighboring tribes, and invented from French, English and German words a code tongue of his own which is reserved for the exclusive ex-clusive use of the "cabinet" and upper administrative oflicials. The interesting feature of this state language, which was discovered and studied by a Frenchman, Lieutenant Clapot, is that, instead of meaning their usual equivalent, the European words have entirely different code significations. sig-nifications. "La mission," for instance, means "to see," and "franc" means "the king." "Ordmmg" means "we," "savant" riieans "an egg," "lemon" means "a hill," "left" means "which," and "England" means "a head." Manchester Man-chester Guardian. |