Gun language

E617305

Gun is a Gbe language of the Niger-Congo family spoken primarily in Benin and neighboring regions of West Africa.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Gun language canonical 6

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Gbe language ⓘ
Niger-Congo language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Aja language ⓘ
Ewe language ⓘ
linked to: Ewe

Fon language ⓘ
country Benin ⓘ
Nigeria ⓘ
ethnicGroup Gun people ⓘ
family Niger-Congo ⓘ
glottocode gunn1243 ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Gun-Gbe ⓘ
Gungbe ⓘ
linked to: Gengbe

Gungbe language ⓘ
hasDialect Cotonou Gun ⓘ
Porto-Novo Gun ⓘ
hasLinguisticFeature noun class remnants ⓘ
preverbal tense-aspect-mood markers ⓘ
serial verb constructions ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature ATR vowel harmony ⓘ
nasal vowels ⓘ
tone ⓘ
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith Fon language ⓘ
iso639-3Code guw ⓘ
isPartOf Gbe dialect continuum ⓘ
languageFamily Niger-Congo language family ⓘ
primaryRegion southern Benin ⓘ
region West Africa ⓘ
spokenIn Cotonou ⓘ
Lagos State ⓘ
Ogun State ⓘ
Ouémé Department ⓘ
Plateau Department ⓘ
Porto-Novo ⓘ
status regional language in Benin ⓘ
subfamily Atlantic-Congo ⓘ
Gbe ⓘ
Kwa ⓘ
Volta-Congo ⓘ
usedFor everyday communication ⓘ
local trade ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ
wordOrder SVO ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Fon language → closelyRelatedTo → Gun language ⓘ
Gbe languages → hasPart → Gun language ⓘ
Gbe languages → languageFamilyOf → Gun language ⓘ
Egun → language → Gun language ⓘ
Gun people → language → Gun language ⓘ
Fongbe → closelyRelatedTo → Gun language ⓘ