The Gbe languages (pronounced [ɡ͡bè]) form a cluster of about twenty related languages stretching across the area between eastern Ghana and western Nigeria...
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speakers. Like the other Gbe languages, Fon is an isolating language with a SVO basic word order. In Benin, French is the official language, and Fon and other...
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commonly called the Gbe languages. The other major Gbe language is Fon, which is mainly spoken in Benin. Like many African languages, Ewe is tonal as well...
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languages from Dumestre (1971) and other sources: Comparison of numerals in individual languages: Proto-Potou-Akanic reconstructions (Wiktionary) Gbe...
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Gɛn gbe, Gebe, Guin, Mina, Mina-Gen, and Popo) is a Gbe language spoken in the southeast of Togo in the Maritime Region. Like the other Gbe languages, Gen...
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Look up GBE or Gbe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. GBE or Gbe may refer to: Gale Banks Engineering, a company created by hot rodder Gale Banks Glory...
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The Phla–Pherá (Xwla–Xwela) languages form a possible group of Gbe languages spoken mainly in southeastern and southwestern Benin; some communities are...
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Adangme) Gbe languages (Ewe) Gur languages (Gurunsi, Dagbani, Mossi, Dagaare, and Frafra in Oti–Volta) Senufo languages (Nafaanra) Kulango languages Mande...
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one or another African language. It is derived from Niger–Congo languages of West Africa, especially Fon and other Gbe languages, as well as Akan and Central...
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Gun is part of the Fon cluster of languages inside the Eastern Gbe languages; it is close to other Fon languages, especially its Agbome and Kpase varieties...
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Yobe, Yom, Xwela-Gbe, Yoruba, the official languages is French) Arabic (see also List of countries where Arabic is an official language): Algeria (with...
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Ewe people (category Articles containing Ewe-language text)
speak the Ewe language (Ewe: Eʋegbe) which belongs to the Gbe family of languages. They are related to other speakers of Gbe languages such as the Fon...
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Tula-Waja languages. The Kwa languages are represented by the Gun group in the extreme southwest, which is affiliated to the Gbe languages in Benin and...
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closely related to other Gbe languages such as Ewe, Mina, Fon, and Phla Phera. Adja is the mother tribe from which the other Gbe people are descended. Voiced...
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and Kabiyé - as national languages, meaning that they are promoted in formal education and the media. The two national languages tend to be used regionally...
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Fon people (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
estimated to be about 3,500,000 people, and they speak the Fon language, a member of the Gbe languages. The history of the Fon people is linked to the Dahomey...
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hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa. It unites the Mande languages, the Atlantic–Congo languages (which share...
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Vodou (a female priest is known as a mambo). The term is derived from Gbe languages (Fon, Ewe, Adja, Phla, Gen, Maxi and Gun). The word hounnongan means...
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The Ayizo languages (Ayizɔ) are Gbe languages spoken in Benin. They are Ayizo, Kotafon, and Gbesi. The Ayizo languages are spoken in Benin across and near...
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Waci (also spelled Ouatchi) is a Gbe language of Togo and Benin. It is part of a dialect continuum which also includes Ewe and Mina also known as Gɛn....
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Phla (Kpla), also spelled Xwla, is a Gbe language of Benin and Togo. Eastern at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Western at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) v t...
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million people out of 13.7 million (33.68%). Of the Beninese languages, Fon (a Gbe language) and Yoruba are the most important in the south of the country...
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literary register with a prescriptive grammar known as ߞߊ߲ߜߍ (kángbɛ, kán-gbɛ "language-manner") codified by Solomana Kante, with the màninkamóri variety, spoken...
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Tɔfin (Toffi) is a Gbe language of Benin. Tɔfin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) v t e...
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Pherá, also spelled Xwela, is a Gbe language of Benin. It forms a dialect chain with Western Phla. Pherá at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) v t e...
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ancestors of the Gbe-speaking peoples separated themselves from other refugees and began to establish their own identity. Mawufe Gbe languages: History Gbolonyo...
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There are two languages called Aja: Aja language (Niger-Congo), part of the Gbe dialect continuum, spoken in Benin and Togo Aja language (Nilo-Saharan)...
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The Atlantic–Congo languages make up the largest demonstrated family of languages in Africa. They have characteristic noun class systems and form the core...
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Hounkpati B Christophe Capo (category Articles with French-language sources (fr))
Journal of West African Languages (USA) Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Linguistique Africaine (Paris) Études Gbe – Gbe Studies (Benin) Annales...
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locally known as Yovo Huntɔkonu. Yovo or Yevu means a white person in Gbe languages. Many sources identify the European to be a Dutch trader called Hendrik...
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