Harshen Foodo

Foodo ( ISO 639-3 fod) yaren Guang ne da ake magana da shi a ciki da wajen garin Sèmèrè a arewacin Benin . Akwai kusan masu magana 37,000 (daukar kididdigar kwanan nan da kuma ƙara kiyasin 3.2% na ci gaban shekara ga Benin ^[2] ). Kashi mai yawa na al'ummar kasar suna rayuwa fiye da kasarsu a wasu sassan Benin, da kuma makwabtan Togo, Najeriya, da Ghana . Akwai iya zama kamar 1,000 da ke zaune a Ghana .

Harshen ya samo asali ne a Ghana . Kimanin shekaru 200 zuwa 300 da suka gabata, gungun masu magana da harshen Guang sun yi hijira daga kudancin Ghana zuwa Sèmèrè tare da tsohuwar hanyar cinikin Cola wadda ta ratsa ta Togo da Benin zuwa Najeriya . ^{[3] [4]} Asalin asalin masu magana da Foodo iri-iri har yanzu ana riƙe su cikin sunayen dangi. " ^[5]

1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Harshen Foodo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
2. ↑ Alexandratos, N. (ed.) (1995). World Agriculture Towards 2010: An FAO Study. New York: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and John Wiley and Sons.
3. ↑ Cornevin, Robert. 1964. Contribution à l'etude des populations parlant des langues gouang au Togo et au Dahomey. Journal of African Languages 3:226-230.
4. ↑ Bertho, J. 1951. Trois îlots linguistiques du Moyen-Dahomey: le Tshummbuli, le Bazantché, et le Basila. Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire, 13:872-892.
5. ↑ Plunkett, Gray C. 2009. An overview of Foodo, a linguistic island in Benin. Journal of West African Languages, 36:1-2.107-137.