Language code: sag

Technical information about ISO 639 language code sag

The table below provides technical details for the Sango language, designated by the sag code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

sag

Name

Official

Sango

Native

Yângâ tî sängö

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Urban (Bangui) SangoRiverine Sango
Related languages
NgbandiYakomaNgbakaGbayaZande
Key facts
Evolved as a trade pidgin on the Ubangi River and later creolisedHas a three-tone system that distinguishes meaningAbout half of its vocabulary is inherited from Northern Ngbandi, with many modern borrowings from FrenchPossesses a relatively simple verb morphology but makes heavy use of serial verb constructionsOne of the rare African creoles that now has hundreds of thousands of native speakers.
Sample phrase

Balaô! Ni yeke bala?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Sango language, identified by the code sag, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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