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Sango

Ngbandi-based creole of the Central African Republic
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Summary

Sango is a language[1]. Sango ranks in the top 2% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,836 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Central African Republic[3], Chad[4], Democratic Republic of the Congo[5]
  • Instance of: creole[6], modern language[7]
  • Subclass of: pidgin or creole[8], Ngbandi[9]
  • Writing system: Latin script[10]
  • Wikimedia language code: sg[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Sangho language[12]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 599,000[13], 4,600,000[14], 500,000[15]
  • Native label: Sängö[16], Sango[17]
  • Different from: Sango[18]
  • Indigenous to: Central African Republic[19]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SAG[20], https://apics-online.info/contributions/59[21], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133083950[22]
  • Ethnologue language status: 1 National[23]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[24], Obelepédia[25]

Why It Matters

Sango has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] Sango is known by 39 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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