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Description
Sango is the primary language spoken in the Central African Republic and also the official language of the country. French is also an official language. The Ngbandi language is also spoken. [1]
Sango [2]
- a creole based on the Northern Ngbandi language
- used as a trade language along the Ubangi River prior to French colonisation in the 1880s
- there are 450,000 native speakers of Sango (1988)
- also 1.6 million second language speakers
Ngbandi [3]
- a dialect continuum of the Ubangian family
- spoken by a half-million or so people in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in the Central African Republic
- primarily spoken by the Ngbandi people
Word List(s)
- French Genealogical Word List
- Sango Language Word List and Phrases
- Sango Phrasebook - Wiki Voyage
- Useful Phrases in Sango - Omniglot
- Useful French Phrases - Omniglot
Alphabet and Pronunciation
- Sango Language Alphabet - Wikipedia
- Sango Alphabet and Pronunciation - Omniglot
- French Alphabet and Pronunciation - Omniglot
Language Aids and Dictionaries
Language Aids
- Sango Language - Omniglot
- Sango Language Vowels and Consonants
- The Vocabulary of Sango - Routledge
- Sango Language - Wikipedia
Dictionary
- Samarin, William J and Charles R Taber. A Dictionary of Sango. Hartford, Connecticut: Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1965. Available at: WorldCat.
- Rosenau, E V, Clara De Rosset, and Loie Knight. 1980 Sango-English dictionary. Cleveland, Ohio: Presse biblique baptiste , 1980. Available at: WorldCat.
- Girard, Denis. Cassell's French-English, English-French dictionary. Wiley, New York: Macmillan, 2002. Available at: WorldCat.
Online Dictionary
- English-French-Sango Dictionary
- Sango-English-French Online Dictionary - Sangolex
- [http://centrafrique.sango.free.fr/index_uk.htm English-Sango Dictionary
- English-French Dictionary - Cambridge Dictionary
Additional Resources
References
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Central African Republic," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_African_Republic#Languages#Languages, accessed 5 Apr 2021.
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Sango language," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sango_language, accessed 5 Apr 2021.
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Ngbandi language," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngbandi_language, accessed 5 Apr 2021.