sango
/ˈsæŋəʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.15 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The primary language spoken in the Central African Republic.
Example Sentences
- "1824, Alexander Gerard, Journal of an Excursion through the Himalayah Mountains, from Shipke to the Frontiers of Chinese Tartary, David Brewster (editor), The Edinburgh Journal of Science, Volume 1: April—October, page 219, We crossed it and another stream a little above their union by a couple of bad sangos, and ascended from its bed by a rocky footpath, winding amongst extensive forests of oak, yew, pine, and horse chesnut, to Camp."
- "Four large mountain torrents, the Dangalee, Dubrane, Loarnad, and Rindee Gadh, join the Ganges from the left bank, and have to be crossed by sangos."
- "Sango has 5 million second-language speakers, but only 400,000 native speakers, mainly in the towns."
Etymology
Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced sangwich) + -o (colloquialising suffix). Australian from 1940s.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsæŋəʊ/
Usage
- Australian usage
- Colloquial
- Dated
- Informal
- British usage