A Ngbandi-derived contact language and the official lingua franca of the Central African Republic. Used by virtually the entire population alongside French; structurally simplified through extensive multilingual contact.
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Sango is a dialect of the Sango language.
Sango is primarily spoken in Central African Republic.
Sango is part of the West & Central Africa region on DialectAtlas.
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A cluster of closely related Central Sudanic (Nilo-Saharan) varieties across southern Chad and adjoining parts of the Central African Republic. The Sara group is the largest indigenous ethnolinguistic complex of Chad; Ngambay alone counts around 1.5 million speakers, with Sar, Mbay, and other varieties extending the dialect chain.
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A Bantu language cluster of the central Congo basin, spoken across the Cuvette and Équateur provinces of the DRC. Around 6 million speakers across a wide dialect chain.
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Spoken across Chad and adjoining parts of Sudan, north-eastern Nigeria, and northern Cameroon. The main Sahelian Arabic variety, used as a lingua franca well beyond Arab communities.
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A Saharan Nilo-Saharan language and the historical court language of the Kanem-Bornu empire. Around 13 million speakers across north-eastern Nigeria, southern Niger, eastern Chad, and northern Cameroon.
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A Bantu language used as a lingua franca across the western DRC and the Republic of the Congo, with Kinshasa as its largest urban centre. The language of much of Congolese popular music.
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A Bantu language of the Kasai region in the southern DRC and one of the four national languages of the country. Around 6 million speakers.