Among the earliest settlers were the now about 10,000 pygmies, hunters/ gatherers living in the southern and southeastern forests. Bantu peoples practice shifting cultivation in the southern forest zones, as do the Sudan people in the northern savannas. Fulbe and Arabs also live in the north. About 53 % of the population are Christians of various denominations, 22 % are Muslims, and 25 % are followers of natural religions (Animism). About 20,000 Europeans also live in Cameroon, half of them in Douala. Lingua franca is both French and English, and Ful in the north.