

Sango
The National Official Language of the Central African Republic
Edited by: Helma Pasch. With a preface by: Bernd Heine. With contributions by: Marcel Diki-Kidiri, Jeannine Gerbault, Sylvie Grand’Eury, Valeri Khabirov, Michel Marie Koyt, Helma Pasch, William J. Samarin, Christina Thornell, James A. Walker.
1994138 pp.
1 map, 4 diagrams, author and subject index
Text language(s): English, French
Format: 160 x 240 mm
280 g
Paperback
€ 34.80
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The Central African Republic belongs to those African nations which have given an autochthonous language the status of a second official language, next to one imported from Europe. The number of speakers of Sango as lingua franca is estimated to 5 Mill., the number of mother-tongue speakers to some hundred thousand people. The implementation of Sango meets, however, a series of problems, which are discussed in the present volume.
CONTENTS
Bernd Heine:
Foreword
Helma Pasch:
Introduction
Michel Marie Koyt:
La situation du Sango en République Centrafricaine
Marcel Diki-Kidiri:
Developper le Sango en tant que langue officielle
Christina Thornell:
Reflections on the 1984 Sango orthography decree
Sylvie Grand’Eury:
Le Sango au service de l’animation des structures communautaires rurales et urbaines
Jeannine Gerbault:
The development of Sango literacy in Central African Society
Helma Pasch:
Status and role of Sango in the Central African Republic as contrasted to French
Valeri Khabirov:
The verbal paradigm of Sango
William J. Samarin / James A. Walker:
Verb-marking in Sango
Following the links below, you will find further paper collections whose contributions also feature African national languages:
Accompanying material:
- IX. Afrikanistentag
(ISBN 978-3-927620-79-7 ) - Mechthildian Approaches
to Afrikanistik – Advances in Language Based Research on Africa
(ISBN 978-3-89645-226-9 ) - North-South Contributions to African Languages
(ISBN 978-3-89645-889-6 ) - Responding to Disease Outbreak in Cameroon
(ISBN 978-3-89645-855-1 ) - San and the State
(ISBN 978-3-89645-357-0 )
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