Central African Republic Languages

Description
Sango is the primary language spoken in the Central African Republic and also the official language of the country. French and the Ngbandi language is also spoken.

Sango
 * a creole based on the Northern Ngbandi language
 * used as a trade language along the Ubangi River prior to French colonisation in the 1880s
 * there are 450,000 native speakers of Sango (1988)
 * also 1.6 million second language speakers

Ngbandi
 * a dialect continuum of the Ubangian family
 * spoken by a half-million or so people in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in the Central African Republic
 * primarily spoken by the Ngbandi people

Word List(s)

 * French Genealogical Word List
 * Sango Language Word List and Phrases
 * Sango Phrasebook - Wiki Voyage
 * Useful Phrases in Sango - Omniglot

Alphabet and Pronunciation

 * Sango Language Alphabet - Wikipedia
 * Sango Alphabet and Pronunciation - Omniglot

Language Aids and Dictionaries
Language Aids
 * Sango Language - Omniglot
 * Sango Language Vowels and Consonants
 * The Vocabulary of Sango - Routledge
 * Sango Language - Wikipedia

Dictionary
 * William J Samarin & Charles R Taber, A Dictionary of Sango, n.p. : n.p., n.d. - Available at WorldCat
 * E V Rosenau, Clara De Rosset & Loie Knight, 1980 Sango-English dictionary, Cleveland, Ohio : Baptist Mid-missions, 1980 - Available at WorldCat

Online Dictionary
 * English-French-Sango Dictionary
 * Sango-English-French Online Dictionary - Sangolex
 * [http://centrafrique.sango.free.fr/index_uk.htm English-Sango Dictionary

Additional Resources

 * Languages of the Central African Republic
 * Central African Republic
 * Sango Language