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Sango (also spelled Sangho) is a major language spoken in Central Africa, especially the Central African Republic, southern Chad and Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is an official language in the Central African Republic, [ 4 ] where it is used as a lingua franca across the country and had 450,000 native speakers in 1988.
The Central African Republic's two official languages are French and Sango (also spelled Sangho), [146] a creole developed as an inter-ethnic lingua franca based on the local Ngbandi language. The Central African Republic is one of the few African countries to have granted official status to an African language.
The Sango people (or Basango, Bosango, Sangho, Sangos) are an ethnic group living on the banks of the Ubangi River in the Central African Republic. They speak a Northern Ngbandi -based creole language called Sango , which belongs to the Ubangian branch of the Niger-Congo family.
The official languages of the Central African Republic are French and Sango. In total there are about 72 languages in the country. [1] In the CAR, French is the language of writing and formal situations. In 2022, French is spoken by 28.6% of the population (1.4 million people). [2] [3] Sango has about 350,000 native speakers.
Samarin spent almost a decade in Central Africa studying Gbeya, Sango and other African languages. He was one of the first to study ideophones in a number of different African languages, and he did extensive research on the history of the Sango language, which he claimed involved pidginization.
The Ubangian languages form a diverse linkage of some seventy languages centered on the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They are the predominant languages of the CAR, spoken by 2–3 million people, including one of its official languages, Sango .
Central African Republic: 30,000: Languages; Runga, Chadian Arabic, French, Sango: ... The Runga are an ethnic group in Chad as well as the Central African Republic ...
Radio Centrafrique is a public radio station in the Central African Republic that is funded by the Ministry of Communication and Media. It broadcasts in French and Sango . [ 1 ]