Gun is a member of the Eastern Gbe branch of Volta-Niger language family. It is spoken by the Ogu people mainly in Benin, and also in Nigeria. In particular, it is spoken in the cities of Porto-Novo, Sèmè-Kpodji, Bonou, Adjarra, Avrankou, Dangbo, Akpro-Missérété and Cotonou in Ouémé and Littoral departments in the southeast of Benin, and in the cities of Badagry in Lagos State, and Mawun and Tube in Ogun State in the southwest of Nigeria.
Gun is known as gungbe by the people who speak it. An orthography for Gun using the Latin alphabet was developed in Benin for a Bible translation in 1923. This was updated in 1975. Another orthography has been developed in Nigeria. There are proposals to unify the to orthographies, including one devised by Hounkpati Capo in 1990.
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Osa ke ye Adamu, Ọ na ka ye agbọn ọ ẹvbo hia ne emwin ne mose mose kevbe emwin ọyunuan vuọn. Ọ keghi vbe ye avbe oke kevbe oto oha lele ẹre, obobo ni winhinrin, avbe erhan oha ni tanọ, avbe ifuẹn ahianmwẹn ni fi wannọ wannọ kevbe avbe owọn ni winna, avbe ehẹn nekhua ni hẹko khuẹ vbe amẹ, avbe egilẹ ni sun.
Source: https://bibleforchildren.org/PDFs/gungbe/01_When_God_Made_Everything_Gungbe_CB.pdf
Information about Gun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_language
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun-gbe
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/gunn1250
http://www.language-archives.org/language/guw
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/guw
Aja, Ayizo, Belanda Viri, Ebira, Edo, Ewe, Fon, Gen, Gun, Igala, Igbo, Ikwerre, Isoko, Nupe, Ogba, Urhobo, Yorùbá
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 04.03.25. Last modified: 04.03.25
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