sango/ˈsæŋəʊ/EtymologyAbbreviation of sandwich (pronounced sangwich) + -o (colloquialising suffix). Australian from 1940s.nameThe primary language spoken in the Central African Republic.“Sango has 5 million second-language speakers, but only 400,000 native speakers, mainly in the towns.”nounA sandwich.A rudimentary wooden bridge in India.“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, ”