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Fon language


Name	Fon
Nativename	Fon gbè
States	Benin, Togo
Speakers	1.4 million (2006)
Ethnicity	Fon people
Familycolor	Niger-Congo
Fam2	Atlantic � Congo
Fam3	Volta � Niger
Fam4	Gbe
Iso1	\|iso2=fon\|iso3=fon
Notice	IPA

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Fon (native name Fon gbè, pronounced -eefɔ̃̄ɡ͡bè) is part of the Gbe language cluster and belongs to the Volta � Niger branch of the Niger � Congo languages. Fon is spoken mainly in Benin by approximately 1.7 million speakers, by the Fon people. Like the other Gbe languages, Fon is an analytic language with an SVO basic word order.

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