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The etymology of mbunzú for ‘White-man’ in Sango: Central African history
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Une histoire brève de l’origine de la langue sango en Afrique centrale
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Review of A dictionary of Cameroon Pidgin English usage: Pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary, by Jean-Paul Kouega
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Review of Making Wawa: The genesis of Chinook Jargon, by George Lang
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Convergence and the retention of marked consonants in Sango
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Review of The dynamics of Sango language spread, by Mark Karan
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Explaining shift to Sango in Bangui
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Abstract:
Various approaches are used to determine the number of people in Bangui, who are native speakers of Sango. Here are presented findings from the analysis of the census of 1988, in which people were asked what was the language of their earliest childhood. Of the total, data for 425,000 persons are analyzed. Of these 29.4 percent are native speakers; of those born in Bangui, 41.7 percent are Sangophone. But the figure rises to 42.1 percent for those 15 years of age and younger. This is higher than the 30.55 percent obtained in interviews with school children. In the census, gender is not significant at all as an independent variable, whereas 36.01 percent of boys and 33.22 percent of girls in a 1,065-subject sample of preschool children were native speakers. Also, in a poll of persons attending several churches, 51.69 percent of adolescent girls were native speakers and 45.77 percent of the boys were. In the census something that might be called class is linked to nativization: of those who were still in school 35 percent were Sangophone, of those no longer in school only 25.9 percent. In both the census and in interviews between the years 1988 and 1994 ethnicity is linked with greater or lesser percentages of nativization in Sango.
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age variable; allophone; Bambara language; Banda; Bangui; census of 1988 (C.A.R.); Central African Republic; cities; colonization; competence; creolization; density of population; education variable; ethnic diversity; ethnic variable; field linguistics; first language; fluency; French in C.A.R; French in Sango; Gbaya; gender variable; history; identity; inter-tribal marriages; interviewing; language change; language identity; language loss; language maintenance; language shift; lingua franca; linguistic field work; literacy; marriages; mixed marriages; mother tongue; multilingualism; national symbol; nativization; neighborhoods; Ngbandi language; number of Sango speakers; occupation; origin of Sango; Pidgin languages; place of birth; population of Bangui; primary language; Protestants; riverine population; Sango language; Sangophone; social changes; social variables; sociolinguistics; speakers of Sango; Standard Sango; tribalism; Ubangi River; Ubangians; urban centers; urban Sango; urbanization; variables; variation; varieties of Sango; vehicular language; vernacular language; vernacularization; village language; Yakoma ethnic group
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/67144
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