Ayizo

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Ayizo (Ayizɔ)

Spoken in

Benin
speaker 400,000 (2002-2006)
Linguistic
classification

Niger-Congo

Language codes
ISO 639-3

ayb (Ayizɔ)
kqk (Kotafon)
gbs (Gbesi)

The Ayizɔ-Gbe language (ISO 639-3: ayb) is a Gbe language from the subgroup of the Aja languages ​​and is spoken by a total of 227,000 people (2006) in the Beninese provinces of Mono and Atlantique .

The language has several dialects: kadagbe (kada-gbe), ayizo-seto, ayizo-tori and ayizo-kobe. Most speakers also speak the language fon [fon], but more and more speakers are adopting the French language . The script of the language is the Latin script .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ayb
  2. Ethnologue