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It became a national language in 1963 and an official language (alongside French) in 1991. It is estimated that 92% of the CAR's population is able to speak Sango. The language has become the mother tongue of almost all children in Bangui. [4] Nearly all of the native languages of the CAR belong to the Ubangian languages.
The following chart lists countries and dependencies along with their capital cities, in English and non-English official language(s). In bold: internationally recognized sovereign states. The 193 member states of the United Nations (UN) Vatican City (administered by the Holy See, a UN observer state), which is generally recognized as a ...
Official language Switzerland: Europe 8,619,259 [7] Co-official language with German, French, and Romansh Croatia: Europe 208,055 Istria County Slovenia: Europe 93,089 Slovene Istria San Marino: Europe 33,607 [8] Official language Vatican City: Europe 825 [9] Co-official language with Latin: Total 69,153,468
As a former French colony, French is the official language, with Sango, a Ngbandi-based creole language as the national and co-official language. [10] The Central African Republic mainly consists of Sudano-Guinean savannas, but the country also includes a Sahelo-Sudanian zone in the north and an equatorial forest zone in the south.
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.
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
Bangui (French pronunciation:; or Bangui in Sango, formerly written Bangui in English) is the capital and largest city of the Central African Republic.It was established as a French outpost in 1889 and named after its location on the northern bank of the Ubangi River (French: Oubangui); the Ubangi itself was named from the Bobangi word for the "rapids" located beside the settlement, [2] which ...
Italy: 35 12 47 0.66 ... Cook Islands: 5 0 5 0.07 15,000 3,000 ... This is the list of countries sorted by the number of official languages. Only countries with three ...