The Sango people (or Basango, Bosango, Sangho, Sangos) are an
ethnic group
An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ...
living on the banks of the
Ubangi River
The Ubangi River (), also spelled Oubangui, is the largest right-bank tributary of the Congo River in the region of Central Africa. It begins at the confluence of the Mbomou (mean annual discharge 1,350 m3/s) and Uele Rivers (mean annual discharge ...
in the
Central African Republic
The Central African Republic (CAR; ; , RCA; , or , ) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the southeast, the DR Congo to the south, the Republic of the C ...
. They speak a
Northern Ngbandi-based
creole language
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called
Sango, which belongs to the
Ubangian
The Ubangian languages form a diverse linkage of some seventy languages centered on the Central African Republic. They are the predominant languages of the CAR, spoken by 2–3 million people, and include the national language, Sango. They are ...
branch of the
Niger-Congo family.
See also
*
List of ethnic groups of Africa
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References
Bibliography
*
Pierre Kalck,
Sango, in ''Historical Dictionary of the Central African Republic'', Scarecrow Press, 2005 (3rd ed.), p. 174 ; reported by
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in ''
Journal des africanistes'', 1936, 6-2, pp. 238-239.
*Antonin-Marius Vergiat, ''Les rites secrets des primitifs de l'Oubangui'', Payot, 1936, reissued at L'Harmattan, Paris, 1981, 210 p.
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Ethnic groups in the Central African Republic
Ethnic groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo