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Cotonou (French pronunciation:; Fon: Kútɔ̀nú) [2] is the largest city in Benin. Its official population count was 679,012 inhabitants in 2012; however, over two million people live in the larger urban area.
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[1] 1912 - Cotonou becomes a "commune mixte." [4] 1920s - Population: 8,500. [4] 1928 - Ancien Pont (bridge) built. 1955 - Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cotonou established. [5] 1957 - January: Pan-African General Union of Negro African Workers founded at a conference in Cotonou. 1960s - Tomety photo studio in operation. [6] 1963
The average number of families per house was 1.1 and the average number of persons per room was 1.7. The total labour force in the department was 253,892, of which 46.00% were women. The proportion of households with no level of education was 21.10% and the proportion of households with children attending school was 88.50%.
An experimental Wikipedia edition in the obsolete chữ Nôm script began in October 2006 at the Wikimedia Incubator. [6] It was deleted in April 2010. [7] [non-primary source needed] The Vietnam Wikimedians User Group supports the development of the Vietnamese Wikipedia and other Vietnamese-language Wikimedia projects.
Later, in 1920, French-Polish linguist Jean Przyluski found that Mường is more closely related to Vietnamese than other Mon–Khmer languages, and a Viet–Muong subgrouping was established, also including Thavung, Chut, Cuoi, etc. [13] The term "Vietic" was proposed by Hayes (1992), [14] who proposed to redefine Viet–Muong as referring to ...
During the expansion of Vietnam some place names have become Vietnamized. Consequently, as control of different places and regions has shifted among China, Vietnam, and other Southeast Asian countries, the Vietnamese names for places can sometimes differ from the names residents of aforementioned places use, although nowadays it has become more ...
Chữ Nôm (𡨸喃, IPA: [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ nom˧˧]) [5] is a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language.It uses Chinese characters to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, with other words represented by new characters created using a variety of methods, including phono-semantic compounds. [6]