Weme

E617304

Weme is a dialect of the Fon language spoken by communities in parts of Benin and neighboring regions.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Weme canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (26)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
variety of Fon
closelyRelatedTo Aja NERFINISHED
Ewe NERFINISHED
Gun NERFINISHED
hasAncestor Proto-Gbe NERFINISHED
Proto-Niger–Congo NERFINISHED
hasEthnolinguisticGroup Fon people NERFINISHED
hasISO639Macrolanguage Fon NERFINISHED
hasPhonologyType tonal language
hasStatus regional language variety
hasWordOrder SVO
isMinorityLanguageIn Benin NERFINISHED
languageFamily Gbe languages NERFINISHED
Niger–Congo languages
neighboringRegions regions neighboring Benin
partOfLanguage Fon language
region parts of Benin
sharesMutualIntelligibilityWith other Fon dialects
spokenBy Weme-speaking communities
spokenIn Benin NERFINISHED
West Africa NERFINISHED
subclassOf Fon language variety
usedFor everyday communication
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.