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Description[edit | edit source]

Sango is the primary language spoken in the Central African Republic and also the official language of the country. French and the Ngbandi language is also spoken.

Sango ^[1]

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 ^[2]

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)[edit | edit source]

Alphabet and Pronunciation[edit | edit source]

Language Aids and Dictionaries[edit | edit source]

Language Aids

Dictionary

William J Samarin & Charles R Taber, A Dictionary of Sango, n.p. : n.p., n.d. - Available at WorldCat
E V Rosenau, Clara De Rosset & Loie Knight, 1980 Sango-English dictionary, Cleveland, Ohio : Baptist Mid-missions, 1980 - 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

Additional Resources[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

↑ 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.

[1] Wikipedia contributors, "Sango language," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sango_language, accessed 5 Apr 2021.

[2] Wikipedia contributors, "Ngbandi language," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngbandi_language, accessed 5 Apr 2021.

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