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==Description== | ==Description== | ||
Sango is the primary language spoken in the Central African Republic and also the official language of the country. | Sango is the primary language spoken in the Central African Republic and also the official language of the country. The Ngbandi language is also spoken. | ||
'''Sango''' | '''Sango''' <ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Sango language," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sango_language, accessed 5 Apr 2021.</ref> | ||
* a creole based on the Northern Ngbandi language | * a creole based on the Northern Ngbandi language | ||
* used as a trade language along the Ubangi River prior to French colonisation in the 1880s | * 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''' <ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Ngbandi language," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngbandi_language, accessed 5 Apr 2021.</ref> | |||
* 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)== | ==Word List(s)== | ||