Sango: A Social and Linguistic History. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Sango: A Social and Linguistic History

Sango emerged from colonization but was created by Africans. William Samarin traces how Sango, developing alongside Kituba and Lingala, went from a trade lingua franca along the Ubangi River to become a creole vernacular with more than 2 million speakers. Based on four decades of fieldwork in what is now the Central African Republic, the book examines Sango's linguistic features, its relationship to other pidgins and creoles, its geographically diverse sources, and the historical conditions that shaped it. Linguists, creolists, and historians concerned with the consequences of languages-in-contact will find this an essential work, as will students of the history of the Central African Republic and language-and-colonization.

William J. Samarin (February 7, 1926 - January 16, 2020) was professor emeritus of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada. He lived in Oubangui-Chari, now the République Centrafricaine, from 1952 to 1960 and returned from 1962 to 1994 seven times for long periods of research on Sango. He has written extensively on this language, as well as Gbaya, and on the linguistic consequences of colonization in west-central Africa.