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	The Empire of Fon
		Fon Milikin and Fon Alad are primarily agricultural, and are almost uninhabited except during the hot season.
		Fon Mar is an odd mix of mining, forestry, commercial centre, and uninhabited land.
		The Empire of Fon recognizes the High and Low Imperial languages, and many of the educated in Fon speak this language, although the language of Fon is significantly different.
	splendour.freeservers.com /fon.html (969 words)

	Fon language resources
		Fon is spoken on a daily basis in: Benin
		Fon (native name F?ngbe) is part of the Gbe language cluster and belongs to the Kwa sub-family of the Niger-Congo languages.
		Fon is spoken mainly in Benin by approximately 1.7 million speakers.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Fon.html (1176 words)

	Gbe languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gbe language area is bordered to the west and east by the Volta river in Ghana and the Weme river in Nigeria.
		Ewe is a language of formal education for secondary schools and universities in Ghana, and is also used in non-formal education in Togo.
		The Bight of Benin, which is precisely the area where the Gbe languages are spoken, was one of the centers of the slave trade at the turn of the eighteenth century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gbe_languages (3767 words)

	About Fon
		Fon is also called Fongbe (gbe) which means "language." The Fon people inhabit the southern region of Benin, and to this day, they have a king who is located in the capitol of the Fon kingdom called Abomey.
		Fon is the predominant language of the Southern Benin, and is not spoken in other parts of the country.
		Fon as well as other local languages have had a large impact on the French that is spoken in Benin, even by educated people.
	www.geocities.com /fon_is_fun/about_fon.htm (1867 words)

	PanAfrLoc \| PanAfrLoc / Gbe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ewe is a national and regional language in Ghana and Togo.
		Gen is one of the languages used for adult literacy by the Benin government and one of the six with government post-literacy programs.
		It is not known the extent to which versions in these related languages might benefit from collaboration and whether harmonisation of terminologies would be possible or useful.
	www.bisharat.net /wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Gbe (878 words)

	Benin - POLITICAL BACKGROUND, PERSONAL BACKGROUND, RISE TO POWER, LEADERSHIP, DOMESTIC POLICY
		The largest indigenous groups are the Fon, Adja, Yoruba, and Bariba.
		While the official language is French, the principal spoken languages are Fon and Yoruba in the south, and several languages, including Bariba and Fulani, in the north.
		The dominant group is the Fon-Adja, accounting for approximately 60% of the population, while the Bariba and Yoruba account for 10% and 9% respectively.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /World-Leaders-2003/Benin.html (368 words)

	Ethnologue: Benin
		The number of languages listed for Benin is 51.
		The language is called 'Biali' or 'Bieri', the people 'Bialaba'.
		Language related to Yoruba, but culture to Baatonu (Bariba), among whom they live.
	www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Beni.html (1240 words)

	african indigenous anthropology fon people
		The Fon are said to have originated in the area of Tado, a town in Tago, at approximately the same latitude as Abomey, Benin." A brief look at Fon history and culture.
		The Fon are said to have originated in the area of Tado, a town in Tago, at approximately the same latitude as Abomey, Benin." - From Minnesota State University - http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/oldworld/africa/fonculture.html
		__ "The Fon kingdom of Dahomey, which was ruled by the kings of the Alladahonu dynasty for over 200 hundred years, reached its political and economic peak between the early 18th and the mid-19th centuries.
	www.archaeolink.com /african_indigenous_anthropology_.htm (487 words)

	Language
		Hakka spoken language is the 32nd widest spoken language in the world.
		Chinese language is one of the most spoken languages in the world (See World Language and Population) and Hakka is one of the five major spoken languages(dialects) in mainland China with the following breakdown: (Journal of Asia and African Studies, No. 24, 1982)
		It is believed to be the official tongue for the Middle Kingdom prior to the immigration of the northern tribes of Xiongnu, Turkistan, Liao2, Jin1, Yuan2, and Manchurian.
	www.asiawind.com /hakka/language.htm (2798 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Gur & Kwa
		You have reached the page on the Gur and Kwa sub-branches of the Niger-Kordofanian language family, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
		Fon is also called Fongbe or Fon-Gbe; it is spoken in the country of Benin.
		Yoruba is spoken in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo; it is one of the 4 national languages of Nigeria.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/gurkwah.htm (1177 words)

	African Languages by Countries :: Official and national Languages of Africa
		Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north).
		Native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population.
		Afrikaans common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population, German 32%, indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/african_languages.htm (583 words)

	Ethnologue report for Benin
		Ci is very close linguistically to Fon and is considered to be the same by Ci speakers.
		Lexical similarity 82% with Gbe Ayizo, 81% with Fon, 69% with Gen, 65% with Aja.
		Lexical similarity 86% with Gun, 84% with Fon, 73% with Gen, 68% with Aja, 90% with Xwela, 88% with Saxwe.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Benin (1886 words)

	FON Blog (English)\| Text Version
		One of the most exciting and challenging aspects of building the FON Community is creating an absolutely unique business concept through direct, open and transparent processes.
		FON actually blogs and publishes its statistics, dilemmas, and strategies in a manner in which its Foneros and the general public can essentially experience FON’s business decisions in real time.
		FON is growing its Community of Foneros at an amazing rate, and we are trying to grow the FON team quick enough to support all of the new members.
	blog.fon.com /en/light.html (1592 words)

	FON_signs_with_Mandriva / Pr / Press / Company / Home - Mandriva Linux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Furthermore, FON and Mandriva agreed to develop a partnership for the distribution of FON WiFi acess points (FONeras) in France and abroad, starting in October 2006.
		By signing this agreement FON intends to show its commitment to the Linux and open source community across the world.
		Created in 2005, FON's goal is to create the largest WiFi community in the world, and to spread WiFi all over the globe.
	www.mandriva.com /company/press/pr/fon_signs_with_mandriva (310 words)

	FON - Freakishly Overhyped Network \| steve's gallery
		Like a terrible blog meme, the recent news about FON is spreading like a bad case of syphillis across the blogocube.
		FON is a Global Community of people who share WiFi.
		In fact that's the whole goal of FON, as stated by FON founder Martin Varsavsky on his blog: "I created FON as a way to build a global wifi network and boost ISP revenue."
	stevesgallery.com /en/2006/feb/08/1453/fon-freakishly-overhyped-network (557 words)

	GigaOM » FONing a WiFi Revolution
		FON is the P2P of WIFI and I want to find the best way to launch FON around Europe and the rest of the world.
		Fon is not going to work in even the remotest fashion.
		FON is asking people to invest in their idea.
	gigaom.com /2005/12/04/foning-a-wifi-revolution (3279 words)

	FON - Friends of Niger
		"Hello!" in Hausa, Zarma/Fulfulde, Tarmachek and Beri Beri, the languages of Niger.
		At the March 12, 2006 meeting of the Board of Directors of Friends of Niger, the board voted to allocate the sum of $500 to a newly formed NGO, Tin-Hinan.
		FON has begun a campaign to reopen the USAID mission in Niamey.
	www.friendsofniger.org (1046 words)

	PimsleurDirect - Start Learning to Speak Haitian Creole Fast with Pimsleur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Paul Pimsleur is now hailed as the household name in foreign language training, but he was a controversial figure during his own career.
		He challenged the status quo in academic circles by developing the Pimsleur Method™, a system guaranteed to teach nearly anyone how to speak a foreign language, in just a half hour per day - with no pop quizzes or tedious written homework.
		Years ago, I bought piles of language records in French, German, Russian, Italian and Arabic, then had to transfer them laboriously onto minidisks and, from there, onto a handheld recorder, all of which took many months and still left me ignorant.
	shopping.netsuite.com /s.nl/c.440887/sc.15/category.376/.f (412 words)

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		There is another part of the standard ISO 639-1 that consists of two-letter codes for languages.
		Future development of language codes will be based on the name in the native tounge, unless another language code is requested by the country or contries using the language.
		ISO 3166 country codes may be used together with a language code to denote the area where the term, or language is used.
	anubis.dkuug.dk /i18n/iso-639-2.txt (246 words)

	CNWS Newsletter June 2003 - News from the departments
		The structural relationships between the Gbe languages of West-Africa and the Surinamese Creole Languages’ which is sponsored by the Dutch Research Council (NOW), The Spinoza Programme (Pieter Muysken), and the Arts Faculty, University of Amsterdam.
		The aim of the project is to document the Logba and Nyagbo-Tafi languages which, together with the better described Avatime, form the southernmost cluster of the Ghana-Togo Mountain languages (GTM languages).
		Logba and Nyagbo-Tafi are among the least studied languages of Ghana and both languages are threatened by Ewe, the regional language that surrounds them and to which both adults and children are shifting.
	www.cnws.leidenuniv.nl /index.php3?c=60 (2239 words)

	African Countries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Languages: English 20% (official), some 20 ethnic group languages, of which a few can be written and are used in correspondence.
		Languages: English (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%)
		Languages: English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic
	www.africanjourney.net /africancountries.html (6772 words)

	Discover Haiti: Haiti Alix's Corner- Destination Benin, Part II
		That flexibility or union of the old and the new can be seen at every level; from the political organization of the country to the languages of the country to the food.
		Aside from French, the most current languages in Benin are Fon and Yoruba.
		The other most important languages are Fon and Yoruba in the South.
	www.discoverhaiti.com /alix_2000_11.htm (1276 words)

	Gerard Adedjoumon Akindes - Autobio
		Major Languages: Fon 47%, Yoruba 12% and Adja 11%, South and Center; Bariba 8.5% and Peulh 5.6%, North.
		Its history is linked to that of the powerful Fon Kingdom of Danhomê which fiercely resisted French conquest.
		The Yoruba and the Fon have their own pantheons of Gods.
	oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~ga320592/Ben3111ang.html (826 words)

	Kim's Angelique Kidjo Page - Oremi Forever
		I was in Brazil and it is a very weird feeling sitting there and they are singing in your language and you know that after that song, they cannot speak your language.
		And she used to call me from that point on (foreign language spoken), 'my fl sister.' And we met couple of time at the Grammy nominations and we always laughed a lot.
		DJE DJE L'AYE (sung in Yoruba and Fon; Kompa)
	www.angelfire.com /ak3/oremiforever/angelique.html (4997 words)

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		English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for national
		Afrikaans common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population
		Hindi the national language and primary tongue of 30% of the people
	www.daml.org /2001/12/factbook/languages (208 words)

	Fonts in Windows
		Windows comes with a considerable assortment of different types of fonts and characters that allow for considerable flexibility in format and a wide assortment of distinctive and artistic effects in Windows documents.
		There is support for a number of languages and for many special symbols.
		Windows has support for a number of modern languages but if you need fonts in more esoteric languages, the Yamada Language Center Font Archive has fonts from many non-Western languages (and some very Western ones like Cherokee and Cree) not to mention Gaelic, Old German, Slavonic, and more.
	vlaurie.com /computers2/Articles/fonts.htm (1081 words)

	Bariba language resources
		Most of these ethnic groups have their own languages, although French is the official language, which is spoken mostly in the cities.
		Of the indigenous languages, the Fon and Yoruba languages are...
		Most of these ethnic groups have their own languages, although French is the official language...
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Bariba.html (1276 words)

	GBE (Ewe/Mina/Fon) Language Page - Handbook of African Language Resources (ASC)(MSU)
		This dialect cluster belongs to the "Left Bank" or "Togo" Group of Kwa and is spoken in a coastal band extending about 200 kilometers inland, reaching from the Volta River in southeastern Ghana, through Togo and Benin, and into western Nigeria.
		Duthie (personal communication, 1980) reports that "first language speakers must number about 3 million." Voegelin and Voegelin (1977) estimate more than one million, including about 836,000 Fon speakers.
		Ewe is a national language in Ghana and a regional language in Ghana and Togo.
	www.isp.msu.edu /AfrLang/gbe_root.html (339 words)

	FON Blog
		The main reason is that we found people that kindly accepted to translate it into this languages.
		In NYC we have the FON Lab, it might eventually move to San Francisco.
		But in the FON Lab not only do we flash routers but we are testing the next generation of Wi-Fi routers and devices.
	blog.fon.com /en/archive/2006/03 (642 words)

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		Below is the list of languages that we support 24/7/365:
	www.telephonicinterpreters.com /languages.html (54 words)

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