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    cluster of languages inside the Eastern Gbe languages. Hounkpati B Christophe Capo groups Agbome, Kpase, Gun, Maxi and Weme (Ouémé) in the Fon dialect cluster...
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    The Gbe languages (pronounced [ɡ͡bè]) form a cluster of about twenty related languages stretching across the area between eastern Ghana and western Nigeria...
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  • 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)...
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    Ewe people (category Articles containing Ewe-language text)
    speak 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...
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    Na-Togo [formerly] Gbe (inclusion doubtful, as they show more features of Kwa the closer one moves to Akan) The Lagoon languages of southern Ivory Coast...
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    priest is known as a mambo). The term is derived from Gbe languages (Fon, Ewe, Adja, Phla, Gen, Maxi and Gun). The word hounnongan means chief priest. ‘'Hounnongan...
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    Idaasha people (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    composed predominantly of speakers of Ede Idaasha' but rather majority Maxi-Gbe, a dialect of Fon. In Dassa, these include the villages of Gbaffo, Paouignan...
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  • Polyglotta Africana (category Languages of Africa)
    the author compares 280 words from 200 African languages and dialects (or about 120 separate languages according to today's classification; several varieties...
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    Demographics of Benin (category Articles containing Fula-language text)
    Biali, the Waama of Tanguiéta, and the Gulmàceba. Kwa, especially the Gbe languages spoken by the Tado peoples in the southern and central provinces: the...
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    December 1993 (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
    Ontario, Canada Died: Guy des Cars, 82, French novelist Sir Philip Christison, GBE, CB, DSO, MC & Bar, 100, British Army officer Zack Mosley, 87, American comics...
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