Fon, also known as Dahomean or Beninese, is the language of the Fon people and belongs to the Gbe group within the larger Atlantic-Congo family. It is spoken by approximately 2.3 million people, primarily in Benin with communities also in Nigeria and Togo, and like the other Gbe languages it is an isolating language with subject-verb-object word order.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count Fon
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Fon is standardly written in a Latin-based alphabet.
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1. Fon language (Wikipedia)
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fon
Infobox, Native speakers
2.3 million
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It is primarily spoken in Benin, as well as in Nigeria and Togo
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