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Gun (Gun: gungbe) is a language in the Gbe languages group. It is spoken by the Ogu people in Benin, as well as in south-western Nigeria.[2] Gun is part of the Fon cluster of languages inside the Eastern Gbe languages; it is close to Fon, especially its Agbome and Kpase varieties, as well as to the Maxi and Weme (Ouémé) languages. It is used in some schools in the Ouémé Department of Benin.[3]

This article is about the West African language in the Gbe language group. For the South American language with the language code "gun", see Mbyá Guaraní language. For the terminology of guns, see Firearms terminology.
Gun
gungbe
Native toBenin, Nigeria
EthnicityGun people
Native speakers
1.2 million (2018–2020)[1]
Language family
Writing system
Latin
Official status
Official language in
 Benin
Language codes
ISO 639-3guw
Glottologgunn1250
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Gun is the second most spoken language in Benin. It is mainly spoken in the south of the country, in Porto-Novo, Sèmè-Kpodji, Bonou, Adjarra, Avrankou, Dangbo, Akpro-Missérété, Cotonou, and other cities where Ogu people live. It is also spoken by a minority of Ogu people in southwest Nigeria near the border with Benin, particularly Badagry, Maun, Tube.


Orthography


The language has been written with three orthographies, all of them based on the Latin alphabet. In Nigeria, it has been written with an orthography similar to that of Yoruba and some other languages of Nigeria, and using the dot below diacritic to indicate sounds. In Benin, another orthography was developed for publishing a Bible translation in 1923, and it was updated in 1975, and is now used for teaching literacy in some schools in Benin; it is similar to the orthography of Fon, using letters such as ⟨ɛ⟩ and ⟨ɔ⟩.[4] There are proposals to unify the orthographies, for example the one made by Hounkpati Capo in 1990.[5]


References


  1. Gun at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
  2. "Gun". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  3. 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.
  4. Iyetunde Ofulue, Christine (2015). Orie, Ọlanikẹ Ọla (ed.). Bilingualism and Language Maintenance in Small Language Communities: The Case of Gungbe. Current Research in African Linguistics : Papers in Honor of Ọladele Awobuluyi. Ilọri, Johnson F., Yuka, Lendzemo Constantine. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-4438-8142-5. OCLC 954254260.
  5. Capo, Hounkpati B. C. (1990). "Towards a Viable Orthography for Egungbe". African Languages and Cultures. 3 (2): 109–125. doi:10.1080/09544169008717715. ISSN 0954-416X. JSTOR 1771717.

Bibliography


Gungbe edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gun language test of Wikiquote at Wikimedia Incubator
Gun language test of Wikinews at Wikimedia Incubator

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На других языках

- [en] Gun language

[fr] Gun-gbe

Le gun-gbe (aussi écrit gungbe ou goun-gbe) est une langue gbe parlée par les Gouns aux Bénin et Nigeria. Cette langue est voisine du fon-gbe mais présente des convergences en matière de discours et de communication avec les langues des ethnies proches et amies Toffin, Tori, Wèmé, Yoruba et autres. Le gun-gbe est la deuxième langue la plus parlée au Bénin. Elle est parlée au Sud du Bénin, principalement à Porto-Novo, Sèmè-Kpodji, Bonou, Adjarra, Avrankou, Dangbo, Akpro-Missérété, Cotonou et dans les autres villes dans lesquelles on retrouve des Goun. Le Goun-gbe est aussi parlé par une minorité au Sud-Ouest du Nigeria à proximité de la frontière avec le Bénin.

[ru] Гун (язык)

Гун (самоназвание — Gungbè) — язык из группы языков гбе. На нём говорит народ огу в Бенине, а также на юго-западе Нигерии[2]. Гун является частью кластера языков фон внутри восточных языков гбе; он близок к фону, особенно к его разновидностям агбоме и кпасе, а также к языкам макси и веме (уэме). Он используется в некоторых школах департамента Уэме в Бенине[3].


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