"It has 400,000 native speakers (5 million including second languages speakers)." - how can it be? 5 million is 5 000 000, right?... Manuel Anastácio 02:01, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- at What's surprising is that it has any native speakers at all. Historically, it used to be a pidgin language used exclusively for communication among different tribes. - 208.147.76.23 20:07, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Well after a couple of generations pidgins tend to become creoles. ---moyogo 22:41, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
- The classification as a creole is controversial, according to Marcel Diki-Kidiri (see, in addition to the first para of this article, the PAL L10n page). Apparently a key is its relationship with Ngbandi. I did hear from someone involved in some translation from French into Sango a few years ago that they had some difficulties with terms for animals and environmental terms - this would sound like an urban-based creole, but I suspect that the issue may have been the range of knowledge of the speakers, who were from towns. --A12n 12:50, 25 October 2006 (UTC)