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	African Languages
		Sango is spoken as a first language by much of the urban population and second language by almost the entire rural population.
		The main languages are Amharic, Oromo, Tigrinya and Somali, with Amharic as the lingua franca being spoken as a first language by approximately 28 percent of the population and as a second language by a further 40 percent.
		It is estimated that 13 indigenous languages are spoken in Malawi, The 1966 population census indicated that Chichewa was the majority language, spoken as a native language by 50.2 percent of the population and as a second language by a further 25 percent.
	chora.virtualave.net /afrilang1.html (10097 words)

	Sango language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sango (also spelt Sangho) is the primary language spoken in the Central African Republic: it has 5 million second-language speakers, but only 400,000 native speakers, mainly in the towns.
		It is a vehicular language based on the language of the Sango tribe, belonging to the Ngbandi language cluster (including Ngbandi and Yakoma), with many French words.
		Being a vehicular language, Sango is considered unusually easy to learn; according to Samarin, "with application a student ought to be able to speak the language in about three months." However, to reach true fluency takes much longer, as with any language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sango_(language) (463 words)

	Encyclopedia: Language families and languages
		Language families can be divided into smaller phylogenetic units, conventionally referred to as branches of the family, because the history of a language family is often represented as a tree diagram.
		The Ainu language (Ainu: ã‚¢ã‚¤ãƒŒ ã‚¤ã‚¿ã‡°, aynu itak; Japanese: ã‚¢ã‚¤ãƒŒèªž, ainu-go) is spoken by the Ainu ethnic group on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
		Nivkh or Gilyak (ethnonym: Nivxi) (language, нивхгу - Nivxgu) is a language spoken in Outer Manchuria, in the basin of the Amgun, a tributary of the Amur, along the lower reaches of the Amur and on the northern half of Sakhalin.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Language-families-and-languages (7478 words)

	sango (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sango (珊瑚) is a character in InuYasha, a television anime and manga series shown in Japan, the United States, and elsewhere.
		Sango and her younger brother Kohaku go with their father and some other taijiya to a castle which is being attacked by a spider youkai.
		Sango soon learns the truth about Naraku when she sees that he resurrected her little brother as a mindless slave.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Sango.html (753 words)

	Sango language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sango (also spelt Sangho) is the primary language spoken in the (A landlocked country in central Africa; formerly under French control; became independent in 1960) Central African Republic: it has 5 million second-language speakers, but only 400,000 native speakers, mainly in the towns.
		It is a vehicular language based on the language of the Sango tribe, belonging to the Ngbandi language cluster (including Ngbandi and Yakoma), with many (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French words.
		The situation might be compared to (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English, where most of the vocabulary - particularly "learned" words - is derived from Latin or French, while the basic vocabulary remains strongly Germanic.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/sango_language.htm (567 words)

	Inuyasha's Club
		One night, Sango, her father, and Kokahu are called to a castle to destroy a large spider demon.
		Sango was tricked by Naraku into believing that Inu Yasha murdered her village people so Sango at first tried to kill Inu Yasha.
		Sango never quite forgets her little brother Kohaku, and she wants to see Naraku destroyed as badly as Inuyasha and Miroku.
	groups.msn.com /inuyashasclub/sangosinfo.msnw (604 words)

	www.telelanguage.com
		In the event that all of our interpreters in a particular language are busy on calls, we will give you an option to be put in the que until a needed language interpreter becomes available or we can call you back when someone becomes available to handle your call.
		Languages cannot be literally interpreted; therefore, the message is conveyed with the important details.
		In the event you need a language that is not on our list, in most cases we will be able to find an interpreter in a desired language fairly quickly by subcontracting through an established network of language companies.
	www.telelanguage.com /customersupportfaqs.cfm (1162 words)

	Sango (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sango, shown at left in her yōkai exterminator garb, and at right in her usually wornkimono.
		Sango and her younger brother, Kohaku, go with their father and some other taijiyato a castle which is being attacked by a spider yōkai.
		Sango, who is not dead after all, digs her way out of the grave.
	www.elusiveeye.com /side38071-sango.html (318 words)

	Sango
		She and the other taijiya of her village go to other villages in the region and kill the yōkai that are infesting or attacking them.
		Sango and her younger brother Kohaku go with their father and some other taijiya to a castle which is being attacked by a spider yōkai.
		She then rushes at the lord and tries to kill him, but is stopped when the blade of Kohaku's kusari-gama slams into her back.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/s/sa/sango.html (732 words)

	Sango (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sango trained to be ataijiya from the moment she could walk.
		Sango and her younger brother Kohaku go with their father and some other taijiya toa castle which is being attacked by a spider youkai.
		Sango soon learns the truth about Naraku when she sees that he resurrected herlittle brother as a mindless slave.
	www.therfcc.org /sango-192794.html (683 words)

	Pour une véritable diversité des langues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Some of these languages are presented quite comprehensively, and indeed lessons in them may even be offered on the Internet, while others are known only by mention of their names.
		That would amount to collecting samples of languages for a virtual museum intended to inform future generations about what the languages of humanity were like before the era of the super-powerful, globalized information society which will have reduced the six thousand languages of the world to a few dozen.
		A little more than a century ago, one of the smallest languages of this family, ngbändï, made up of a handful of dialects, gave rise to a lingua franca variety which was later to become known by the name of sängö.
	www.unesco.kz /mling/diki.htm (1688 words)

	Towards real linguistic and cultural diversity in cyberspace: UNESCO-CI
		The most-studied language objects are thus brought to the attention of a community of people who are not necessarily speakers of those languages.
		That would amount to collecting samples of languages for a virtual museum intended to inform future generations about what the languages of humanity were like before the era of the super-powerful, globalized information society which will have reduced the six thousand languages of the world to a few dozen.
		A little more than a century ago, one of the smallest languages of this family, ngbändï, made up of a handful of dialects, gave rise to a lingua franca variety which was later to become known by the name of sängö.
	portal.unesco.org /ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=6628&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (1818 words)

	The Niger-Congo Language Family
		Determining the number of languages in this family is complicated by the fact that it is often difficult to decide, in the absence of written historical records, whether two language varieties are two dialects of the same language or two separate languages.
		The Niger-Congo language family is usually divided several major branches that are estimated to have split from the ancestral language some 5,000 years ago.
		All nouns in Niger-Congo languages are assigned to classes on the basis of their singular and plural forms that are marked by one prefix or suffix in the singular and another in the plural.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/september/niger.html (1183 words)

	Sango language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is a vehicular language based on the language of the Sango tribe, belonging to the Ngbandi language cluster (including and), with many French words.
		Some linguists, following, classify it as a creole; other linguists, however (eg,) reject this classification, saying that changes in Sango structures (both internally and externally) can quite well be explained without a creolization process.
		The situation might be compared to English, where most of the vocabulary - particularly "learned" words - is derived from Latin or French, while the basic vocabulary remains strongly Germanic.
	www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Sangho (494 words)

	Sango - character in InuYasha
		Sango is a character in InuYasha, a television anime series shown in Japan, the United States, and elsewhere.
		Sango trained to be a taijiya from the moment she could walk.
		Sango and her younger brother Kohaku go with their father and some other taijiya to a castle which is being infested by a spider youkai.
	www.japan-101.com /anime/sango.htm (622 words)

	Central African Republic - MSN Encarta
		French is the official language, spoken by around 9,000 people as a mother tongue.
		The national language is Sango, an Ngbandi-based creole, spoken by most people as a lingua franca.
		(Ngbandi is a Democratic Republic of the Congo language from the Niger-Congo language family.) Sixty-seven other African languages (mainly from the Niger-Congo family) are spoken in the CAR, notably Gbaya, Banda, and Bokoto.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574398_3/Central_African_Republic.html (551 words)

	English Gratis, imparare l'inglese senza spendere! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is a vehicular language based on the language of the Sango tribe, belonging to the Ngbandi language cluster (including Ngbandi and Yakoma), with many French words.
		È una lingua franca basata sul linguaggio della tribù sango, appartenente al gruppo di lingue ngbandi (che comprende anche ngbandi e yakoma) ed è ricca di vocaboli francesi.
		Il lavoro completato da Morrill nel 1997 rivelò che esistevano 3 norme sociologicamente distinte ravvisabili nel sango:
	www.englishgratis.com /1/wikipedia/sango.htm (1102 words)

	Sweet Shoppe Sango
		Sango, shown at left in her yōkai exterminator garb, and at right in her usually wornkimono.
		Sango and her younger brother, Kohaku, go with their father and some other taijiyato a castle which is being attacked by a spider yōkai.
		Sango, who is not dead after all, digs her way out of the grave.
	www.altvetmed.com /face/25997-sweet-shoppe-sango.html (787 words)

	abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		These processes affect the lexicon of all languages, but the extent to which they are evidenced in creolized languages suggests that they are accelerated by restructuring.
		The process of creolization in the sango of Central Africa brought about the reduction of the lexicon (down to 300 words) and as a result the reduction of the derivational morphemes existing in the source language - the ethnic sango-yakoma.
		In the absence of the future tense marker á the future tense is expressed by the predicative element yèkè in the creolized sango.
	www.ohiou.edu /alta/khabi.htm (675 words)

	Sango language resources
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		Sango said that he doesn't have to stay by her...
		Sango (also spelt Sangho) is the primary language spoken in the Central African Republic: it has 5 million second-language speakers, but only 400,000 native speakers, mainly in the towns.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Sango.html (1819 words)

	United Bible Societies -- News from Central African Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This included the Sango translation project coordinator and exegete, the Rev Christoph Mueller, his wife, and their children, who were temporarily relocated to Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon.
		It was first a trade language, used mainly along the Oubangui River, and initially had a very limited number of words — mostly taken from the Ngbandi language and other related tongues, but then it started to spread, and became the language of the first territorial army, and was used by many missionaries.
		Soon Sango was being used as the prime language for communicating between some 100 or so different language groups in the heart of Africa, and as it developed, it even incorporated words from English, Arabic, Portuguese, and many words from French and neighbouring Lingala languages.
	biblesociety.org /wr_318/318_11.htm (523 words)

	LG449, Out of Africa: Pidgins and Creoles as National Languages (Peter L Patrick, Univ of Essex)
		Sango, a contact language based on Ngbandi, had about 350,000 native speakers in the 1988 census, making it perhaps the most widely-spoken native language; it is used as a second language by almost the entire population, and by some people in neighboring nations (so, c.5 million).
		Sango is used in radio, television, community school instruction, and some print (eg the Bible).
		English is the official language and the language of school instruction.
	courses.essex.ac.uk /lg/lg449/PCsAsNationalLanguages.htm (1091 words)

	AnimeOnDVD.com >> Disc Reviews >> Inu Yasha Vol. #17 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When Sango's kid brother, Kohaku, is found fleeing from a demon, Sango chooses to believe that he has escaped Naraku's control.
		Sango believes that Kohaku and her can begin a new life together free from Naraku's interference.
		Sango sees that Kohaku is under Naraku's control and vows to kill Kohaku and follow him after in death.
	www.animeondvd.com /reviews2/disc_reviews/2815.php (1178 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The study of language change in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, challenges the claim of J.K. Chambers, after an examination of only a few studies in non-western societies, that "The female advantage in verbal abilities apparently overrides the sociocultural differences" (1995:144).
		Unlike most studies of language change, this one reports on more than one aspect of gender differences.
		In an attempt to find reasons for nativization and language change 106 children of ages 10 to 15 were interviewed randomly in Bangui about the ethnicity of their best friends.
	babel.ling.upenn.edu /~nagy/nwav/WWWabs/Samarin.html (336 words)

	samarin.ca :: Language and Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Welcome to 'Language & Life,' a web site devoted to research and publications about a couple of African languages and a few linguistic phenomena not found in the mainstream of scientific linguistics.
		The languages are Gbaya and Sango, both found in the Central African Republic, once part of French Equatorial Africa.
		Sango is a pidgin based on the Ngbandi group of languages.
	www.samarin.ca (227 words)

	Sango
		Sango and her younger brother Kohaku go with their father and some other taijiya to a castle which is being infested by a spider youkai.
		See also: InuYasha Sango is also a language spoken in the Central African Republic.
		"Sango" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/english/Sa/Sango.html (964 words)

	Lund University, Doctoral Dissertation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This doctoral dissertation is an overview of the recently arisen Sango language spoken in the Central African Republic.
		It is justified to treat Sango as an Ubangi language both from a sociolinguistic and typological point of view.
		Sango arose in the Upper Ubangi area, probably before the arrival of the Europeans, as the outcome of intense contact between the Ngbandi people and other ethnic groups speaking different languages.
	www.lub.lu.se /cgi-bin/show_diss.pl?db=global&fname=hum_31.html (381 words)

	Sango - PanAfriL10n
		Sango is a lingua franca related to Ngbandi of Adamawa Eastern.
		Samarin considers the relationship between Sango and Ngbandi to be analogous to that of African Pidgin English, while Thomas (1981) is content to say that Sango and Ngbandi are similar enough to be considered dialects.
		The suggestion that Sango is a pidgin is controversial and apparently not accepted by recent scholarship.
	www.panafril10n.org /wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Sango (622 words)

	Mail reader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Sango language is a national and official language in the Central African Republic.
		As a national language, Sango is widely used for any nationwide communication, such as rural development economic or health campaigns, teaching adults and transfert of technologies.
		As a linguist and a Sango specialist, I have created a website in Sango and French (the two official languages) to promote the Sango language (See http://sango.free.fr).
	www.openoffice.org /servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=34047 (426 words)

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