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The Edo people, also referred to as the Benin people, [3] are an Edoid-speaking ethnic group. [4] They are prominently native to seven southern local government areas of Edo State , Nigeria . They are speakers of the Edo language and are closely related to other Edoid ethnic groups, such as the Esan , the Etsakọ , the Isoko and Urhobo as well ...
There is an effort to create a machine translator for Fon (to and from French), by Bonaventure Dossou (from Benin) and Chris Emezue (from Nigeria). [14] Their project is called FFR. [15] It uses phrases from Jehovah's Witnesses sermons as well as other biblical phrases as the research corpus to train a Natural Language Processing (NLP) neural ...
Benin is a diverse country linguistically. [1] Of those, French is the official language, and most of the indigenous languages are considered national languages. [2] Benin is a Francophone country, and in 2023, French was spoken by 4.6 million people out of 13.7 million (33.68%). [3]
Hindi is one of the two official union languages of India alongside English. Hindi and Urdu (both registers of Hindustani language) are official languages along with 20 others under the Eighth Schedule of Constitution of India. Pakistan: Asia 220,892,331 [2] Urdu is co-official with English. South Africa: Africa 59,622,350 [3]
Ewe (Eʋe or Eʋegbe [ɛβɛɡ͡bɛ]) [2] is a language spoken by approximately 5 million people in West Africa, mainly in Ghana and Togo. [1] Ewe is part of a group of related languages commonly called the Gbe languages. The other major Gbe language is Fon, which is mainly spoken in Benin.
While his account contains the earliest known written name of the sword in the Benin kingdom, this type of object is more commonly known today as an “Eben” by the Edo people. On the other hand, among the Urhobo , one of the largest neighbours who derived certain aristocratic titles from the Benin royal court, people still know and remember ...
Bariba, also known as Baatonum, is the language of the Bariba people and was the language of the state of Borgu.The native speakers are called Baatombu (singular Baatonu), [2] Barba, Baruba, Berba and a number of various other names and spellings.
The people of Ogu strongly believe in their traditions despite most of them being followers of other religions, they are seen worshipping a deity called Zangbeto. [4] (A Nightman). The Ogu people share similarities with other Gbe people and Yorubas as during the C17-18th the Dahomey Empire was under the Oyo Empire rule, thus the strengthen ...