Langenesis

Niger-Congo family

Sango

c. 1800 CE – today Living

Sango (c. 1800 CE – today) is a living Niger-Congo language. Lineage: Proto-Niger-Congo → Proto-Atlantic-Congo → Sango.

See Sango on the interactive map
Speakers
450K (450,000)
ISO 639-3
sag

Ngbandi-based lingua franca of the Central African Republic (Ubangian branch, often grouped with Adamawa in a contested Adamawa-Ubangi unit). About 5 million speak it as L2; intermediate Ubangian nodes not tracked.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Niger-Congoc. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Atlantic-Congoc. 7,000 BCE – 5,000 BCE
  3. Sangoc. 1800 CE – today

Sister languages 6

Also descended from Proto-Atlantic-Congo.

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