Languages of the Central African Republic
In the Central African Republic 72 different languages and dialects are spoken.
Languages
Almost all the languages of the Central African Republic belong to the family of languages of the Niger - Congo languages . The vast majority of Niger - Congo languages , in turn, belongs to the group of Ubangischen languages , only a small minority in the southwest of the country speak Bantu languages. In the north of the Nilo-Saharan language family languages are spoken.
The two official languages are the language ubangische Sango and French, which was only since the French colonial period as the official language. Among the indigenous languages include the Südbanda, the Banda Banda, the Bokoto, the Gbanu, the Nordwestgbaya, the Basangoa - Gbaya, the Kaba, the Carré, the Manza, the Mbati, the Ngbaka Ma'bo, the Pana, the Yakoma and the Azande.
Official languages
The French since the French rule, the written language and the language in formal situations. According to the General Delegation for the French Language and the Languages of France are now 7.5 % of the total population of the country real Francophone speakers.
"Three years after independence, was the MESAN ( Mouvement d'Evolution Sociale de l' Afrique Noire ) founded by B. Boganda, the Sango, while the French was given the status of official language the status of the national language. (Congress of Berbérati June 1963) "
Sango which is gradually creolized language that is derived from the Ngbandi, and on the basis of a number of French words. The Sango has a total of about 350,000 native speakers. The language has become the vehicular language of the country - it was spoken long before the French colonization in the field of Ubangi -Shari and has been able to obtain during the colonization as the language of missionaries to evangelize. And, according to the délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France speak 92% of Central Africans the Sango. It was back in 1963 and 1991 declared the national language as the official language; furthermore, it has become the mother tongue of nearly all children of the country's capital, Bangui.
Bilingualism
" Ce bilinguisme officiel est dans la mesure où la déséquilibré majorité of productions et expositions langagières sont en français. Nous avons également constate qu'en plus des deux langues officielles l' anglais et l' arabe dans ce domaine apparaissent. Certaines langues vernaculaires centrafricaines interviennent aussi mais ce cas de figure est très rare. L' you use Secure sango dans l'exposition langagière est dans les observable ministères de la santé et de la défense pour le secteur public et dans le domaine pour le secteur privé religieux. "
According to the DYLAN project, which detects the language practices that are now spoken by 45.85 % of the French probed in the education milieu of Bangui, but only 54.10 % Sango. In contrast, the use of French is in the conversation among friends at 7.72%, the use of Sango nevertheless still at 66.62 %.