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A different view of Sango

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ID14770328
AuthorsWilliam J Samarin (University of Toronto, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume78-1/2
Pages305-327
Publication date2008-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal des africanistes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0399-0346 • E-ISSN: 1957-7850
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/africanistes.2748
OpenAlexW250688190
LanguageEN

The impoverished République Centrafricaine whose health as a state is attacked from within and without and barely administered with a phantom government is held together by its indigenous language, a lingua franca for most of the population but the first language of a growing number. In this respect it is almost unique on the African continent even when compared with Swahili, Lingala, and Kituba. But like the latter two it owes its existence as a pidginized vehicular language to the spontaneo

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