| It is a vehicular language based on the language of the Sango tribe, belonging to the Ngbandi language cluster, with many French words. |
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| The French colonists adopted Sango, both for communicating with the local population and for speaking among themselves. |
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| Sissoko, talking in the national language, Sango, to some of the pygmies, translates that it should take a couple of hours. |
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| The forty ethnic groups of the CAR are unified by a single national language, Sango. |
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| By 1910, Sango had become a stable lingua franca spread by soldiers and others serving the whites. |
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| On 22 September, the ROK Navy towed the Sango submarine to the port of Tonghae. |
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| The Sango people were discussing the fines they would exact and interrupted Mann's reproaches with whoops of Kawo! Kawo! in honour of their orisa. |
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| The next largest group is based on French, and a much smaller number based on non-European languages, such as Sango spoken in the Central African Republic. |
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| Written material in Sango was first published by Protestants. |
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| Yoruba theatre has its origin in masquerade by the Egungun and in ritual and annual performances to Obatala, Ogun, and Sango. |
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| The babalawo observes that it is a child of Osun, or of Sango, or of Obataia. |
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| Against the text in Sango, the beat becomes more urgent and polyrhythmic, shifting from what began as a reggae-like underfeel to a fast rumba. |
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| Inclusion of political and historical changes in Yoruba society makes this a particularly powerful essay in the study of Sango as the foremost male orisa in Yoruba ideology. |
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