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Person
Fon
People
Fon-nu
Language
fɔ̀ngbè
Country
Dahomey
Fon (fɔ̀ngbè, pronounced[fɔ̃̀ɡ͡bē][2]) also known as Dahomean is the language of the Fon people. It belongs to the Gbe group within the larger Atlantic–Congo family. It is primarily spoken in Benin, as well as in Nigeria, Togo, Ghana and Gabon, by approximately 2.28 million speakers.[1] Like the other Gbe languages, Fon is an isolating language with a SVO basic word order.
Fon (fɔ̀ngbè, pronounced [fɔ̃̀ɡ͡bē]) also known as Dahomean is the language of the Fon people. It belongs to the Gbe group within the larger Atlantic–Congo...
about 3,500,000 people, and they speak the Fonlanguage, a member of the Gbe languages. The history of the Fon people is linked to the Dahomey kingdom,...
chemistry mnemonic "FON", used for determining which elements hydrogen forms hydrogen bonds with. Fonlanguage, spoken by the Fon people Funding Opportunity...
"village language/speech"), also known as Gelong (仡隆语 / 哥隆语) or Ngan-Fon, is a Kra–Dai language spoken on Hainan Island. It is a part of the Hlai languages branch...
official capital. The name "Cotonou" means "by the river of death" in the Fonlanguage. At the beginning of the 19th century, Cotonou (then spelled "Kutonou")...
The King of Dahomey (Ahosu in the Fonlanguage) was the ruler of Dahomey, an African kingdom in the southern part of present-day Benin, which lasted from...
substratum language(s)) was central in the development of Haitian Creole. The Fonlanguage, also known as the Fongbe language, is a modern Gbe language native...
(French: République du Dahomey; pronounced [daɔmɛ]), simply known as Dahomey (Fon: Danhomè), was established on 4 December 1958, as a self-governing colony...
derive from the Fonlanguage of West Africa; this includes the word Vodou itself. First recorded in the 1658 Doctrina Christiana, the Fon word Vôdoun was...
Venda, Xhosa, Zulu) Aja-Gbe: Benin (a national language along with Anii, Bariba, Biali, Boko, Dendi, Fon-Gbe, Foodo, Fula, Gen-Gbe, Lukpa, Mbelime, Nateni...
Gbe languages is between four and eight million. The most widely spoken Gbe language is Ewe (10.3 million speakers in Ghana and Togo), followed by Fon (5...
is a language in the Gbe languages group. It is spoken by the Ogu people in Benin, as well as in south-western Nigeria. Gun is part of the Fon cluster...
ways, including Danxome, Danhome, and Fon. The name Fon relates to the dominant ethnic and language group, the Fon people, of the royal families of the...
Senegalese-French rapper MC Solaar. At that concert, the crew H2O performed a Fonlanguage-cover of Solaar's "Bouge de là". H2O are known for using folk styles...
in the Zarma-Songhai and Dendi languages, amo in the Fonlanguage, wara in Nagot language and gasaru in Bariba language. The French also call it fromage...
remotely, and the creation of zombies. The word "Vodou" comes from the Fonlanguage (spoken in Dahomey) meaning "spirit" or "god". As the original practice...
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, Gen, Phla...
community of volunteer editors, started on 15 January 2001 as an English-language encyclopedia. Non-English editions were soon created: the German and Catalan...
Orisha pantheons correspond closely: The supreme deity Mawu (in the Fonlanguage) or Olodumare (also known as Olorun, Eledumare, Olofin-Orun and Eledaa...
The Dahomey Amazons (Fon: Agojie, Agoji, Mino, or Minon) were a Fon all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey (in today's Benin, West Africa)...
name Fon Cin (Chinese: 方馨; pinyin: Fāng Xīn), is a Taiwanese actress. Fon Cin is best known for her roles in many long-running Hokkien-language soap operas...
Dahomey Kingdom which is near present-day Nigeria. Vodu is from the Fonlanguage of Dahomey and means "god" or "spirit". Vodu and was the religion for...
1SG.SBJ-stand-up o-is-aʔi 1SG.SBJ-stand-up ‘I stand up’ ex: o-fon-ari 1SG.SBJ-sit-down o-fon-ari 1SG.SBJ-sit-down ‘I sit down’ Animacy is marked by the adjective...
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