Sango
| Sango (Sango) | ||
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Spoken in |
 Central African Republic
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| speaker | 5 million | |
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| Official language in |
Central African Republic ( national language )
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| ISO 639 -1 |
so called |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
say |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Sango (also Sangho , own name Sängö or Yângâ tî Sängö ) has been the national language since 1963 and the official language of the Central African Republic since 1991 .
The language has especially in the 19th century based on the Ngbandi emerged and later became a lingua franca developed. It is still subject to major linguistic changes today. In the mid-20th century it was based on the Latin alphabet verschriftlicht . In 2005, about five million people spoke Sango as a lingua franca and a rapidly growing number as their mother tongue . It is estimated that there are several hundred thousand native speakers.
It is scientifically disputed whether Sango is a Creole language . Charles Henry Morrill contradicted this thesis in 1998 in "Language, Culture, and Society in the Central African Republic: The Emergence and Development of Sango". According to his analysis, Sango does not meet all the criteria of a creole language and is therefore 'only' a vehicularized vernacular language (serving as a lingua franca) . According to his analysis, Sango did not emerge as a pidgin language , but a direct successor to Ngbandi.
See also
- Languages of the Central African Republic , sections " Official Languages " and " Bilingualism "
literature
- WJ Samarin: A grammar of Sango. The Hague 1967.
- L. Bouquiaux: Dictionnaire Sango-Français. Paris 1978, ISBN 2-85297-016-3 .
- Elke Karan: Kêtê Bakarî tî Sängö: Farânzi, Anglëe na Yângâ tî Zâmani. Petit Dictionaire Sango, Mini Sango Dictionary, Small Sango Dictionary. SIL & ILA, 1995, OCLC 896404764 .
- Christina Thornell: The Sango Language and Its Lexicon (Sêndâ-yângâ tî Sängö) . 1997, ISBN 0-86238-482-6 .
- Charles Henry Morrill: Language, culture and society in the Central African Republic. The Emergence and Development of Sango. 1997, OCLC 40726360 .
Web links
- Yângâ tî Sängö tî Bêafrîka , sango.free.fr (In Sängö and French)
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Sango. , archive.org