Gun language
Gun language (Gun: gungbe) is a language in the Gbe languages group. It is spoken by the Gun people in Benin and Nigeria. This language is close to Fon, as well as to Agbome, Kpase, Maxi and Weme (Ouémé) languages. It is the second most spoken language of Benin. It is used in some schools in the Ouémé Department of Benin.[3]
| Gun | |
|---|---|
| gungbe | |
| Native to | Benin, Nigeria |
| Ethnicity | Gun people |
Native speakers | 934,000[1] |
| Latin | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | guw |
| Glottolog | gunn1250[2] |
It is mainly spoken in south Benin in Porto-Novo, Sèmè-Kpodji, Bonou, Adjarra, Avrankou, Dangbo, Akpro-Missérété, Cotonou, and other cities where Gun people live. Gun is also spoken by a minority of people in southwest Nigeria near the border with Benin.
References
- Gun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gun". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Kluge, Angela (2007). "The Gbe Language Continuum of West Africa: A Synchronic Typological Approach to Prioritizing In-depth Sociolinguistic Research on Literature Extensibility" (PDF). Language Documentation & Conservation: 182–215.
Bibliography
- Saulnier, Pierre (1968). Manuel progressif de conversation en langue goun. Porto-Novo : Centre Catéchétique.
- Aboh, Enoch (1996). "A propos de la syntaxe du Gungbe". Rivista di Grammatica Generativa.
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