Sango

The Status of Sango in Fact and Fiction. On the one-hundredth anniversary of its conception

“…Cf. Pasch (1997:214, citing Diki-Kidiri 1982: "some variant of the Yakoma language is likely to have served as a vehicular language throughout the Ubangi bend ... they used Yakoma as a lingua franca".…”

Chapter 3. Beyond the English passive

“…Parkvall's (2008) data further suggest substantial general variation in complexity across languages: Complexity scores for 155 different languages were calculated from 53 features whose presence would arguably add to a language's complexity. Scores ranged from 0.15 for Sango, a creole lingua franca spoken in the Central African Republic (Pasch, 1997) to 0.62 for Burushaski, an isolate language spoken mainly in Northern Pakistan (Holst, 2014), with higher scores indicating more complexity. Comparing complexity priming effects across languages with overall differing complexities can shed light on how overall language complexity interacts with complexity in recent input to affect acquisition.…”