| LC control no. | sh 85050171 |
|---|---|
| LC classification | PL8178 |
| Topical heading | Fon dialect |
| Variant(s) | Dahoman language Dahomeen dialect Djedji dialect Fō dialect Fogbe dialect Fon-Gbe dialect Fongbe dialect Fonnu dialect Jeji dialect |
| See also | Benin--Languages Gbe languages Togo--Languages |
| Found in | Ethnologue, 12th ed., 1992: p. 161, under Benin (Fon-Gbe (Fo, Fon, Fonnu, Fogbe, Dahomeen, Djedji); spoken in Benin, Togo. Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Kwa, Left Bank, Gbe, Fon.) p. 403, under Togo (Fon-Gbe (Fo, Fon, Fonnu, Fogbe, Dahomeen, Dhedji)) Niger-Congo languages, 1989: p. 219ff (Lengthy discussion of Ewe language and its position re. Kwa and Twi langs.) p. 229 (Gbe dialect cluster (Westermann, Greenberg: Ewe) ... There are many dialects; Capo divides them into the following five groups: Vhe, Gen, Aja, Fon, Phla-Phera ... Westermann uses the term Ewe for the whole dialect cluster, and this has been generally accepted in Ghana where only Vhe dialects are spoken, but it has been rejected elsewhere. The term Gbe, the word for "language/dialect" in each of the dialects was adopted by a working group at the Fourteenth West African Languages Congress in Apr. 1980) Fivaz, D. and P. Scott. Afr. langs., 1977: p. 28 (Fo (Fon, Fonnu, Dahomeen, Djedji) listed as dialect under Ewe) Pazzi, R. Dictionnaire de la langue Gen., 1981: p. 8 (Gen ... langues des peuples voisins (Aja, Eve, Pla, Auizo, Peda et Fon) ... influences par les autres dialectes de la region, notamment l'Eve de Togo) Current trends linguistics: v. 7, p. 802 (Fon, Fonnu, dial. of Ewe) Aspects de la grammaire du Fongbe, 1993: p. 1 (Fongbe, langue du groupe kwa de la famille Niger-Congo-Kordofan ...) LC database, Dec. 30, 1996: Premarc heading (Dahoman language; LC records in MUMS: Fon, Fogbe, Djedji, Fongbe) |
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