Anglophone

[ ang-gluh-fohn ]

noun

1. an English-speaking person, especially a native speaker of English.

adjective

1. of or relating to speakers of English.

Anglophone

/ ˈæŋɡləˌfəʊn /

noun

1. a person who speaks English, esp a native speaker

adjective

1. speaking English

Word History and Origins

Origin of Anglophone¹

First recorded in 1965–70; Anglo- + -phone

Example Sentences

In the past, Anglophone separatists have kidnapped journalists while the government has arrested and detained members of the media.

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Cho is an influential figure in the Anglophone movement pushing for independence from Cameroon, where over 6,000 people have been killed and nearly a million others displaced since fighting began in 2016.

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Cho, who describes himself as a liberation leader, is one of the most prominent separatist leaders shaping the conflict in Cameroon’s restive Anglophone regions.

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His anti-institutional radicalism did not emerge with the outbreak of the Anglophone crisis in 2016.

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Cho’s Ambazonia Governing Council has imposed a “liberation tax” which compels people living in the restive Anglophone regions to pay a certain amount of money to fund the conflict against the government.

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