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