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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 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)[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- Sango Language Alphabet - Wikipedia
- Sango Alphabet and Pronunciation - Omniglot
- French Alphabet and Pronunciation - Omniglot
Language Aids and Dictionaries[edit | edit source]
Language Aids
- Sango Language - Omniglot
- Sango Language Vowels and Consonants
- The Vocabulary of Sango - Routledge
- Sango Language - Wikipedia
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
- Denis Girard, Cassell's French-English, English-French dictionary, New York : Macmillan : Wiley, 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[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 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.