A different view of Sango
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14770328 |
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| Authors | William J Samarin (University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 78-1/2 |
| Pages | 305-327 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal des africanistes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0399-0346 • E-ISSN: 1957-7850 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/africanistes.2748 |
| OpenAlex | W250688190 |
| Language | EN |
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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| Highly cited | No |
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