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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 FESAC began to come apart in the late 1960s, so on November 12, 1969, the University of Bangui was created by government ordinance. The University of Bangui expanded the focus of study on agriculture to include scientific research, law, economics, rural development and liberal arts.
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.
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The Consortium's official site, in French and English; EUCLID (Euclid University), official site; University of Bangui, international site; University of N'Djamena, international site; ULI (Brussels) Archived 18 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine, not to be confused with the Université Libre de Bruxelles; ULB: Universite Libre du Burkina
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [ 1 ] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.
Official language A language designated as having a unique legal status in the state: typically, the language used in a nation's legislative bodies, and often, official government business. Regional language A language designated as having official status limited to a specific area, administrative division, or territory of the state.
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 ...