Fon is spoken by millions of people mostly in Bénin and in some parts of Togo and Nigeria.
Here I will regularly share some free resources to learn, read and write Fon language, my language!
On the repo, just click on the green button at the right to get the zip file of the resources
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Gboard, Google keyboard supports Fon with auto correction and auto suggestions. You just need to configure Fon on it. Link to downlaod if not yet on your phone
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Clavier des langues Africaines is another keyboard for mobile phones Link to download
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For wiki projects, a special keyboard has been developed to write most of african languages including Fon: Fon keyboard on Wiki projects
- fɔ́nnù voices --> @FonnuVoices
- Idemi Africa --> @IdemiAfrica
- Fongbe World --> @FongbeWorld
- Bénin Langues --> @BeninLangues
- The Fon Wikipedia project: Homepage
- Some Fon words and expressions on the FR Wiktionary: Link to Fon category on Fr Wiktionary
- Some audios files to learn how to pronounce some Fon words and expressions on Wikimedia Commons: Fon pronouciations
- Lingua Libre is a plateform to record audio files and share on commons: https://lingualibre.fr/wiki/LinguaLibre:Main_Page
- Fon <-> French <--> Fon dictionary available for loan on internet archives: https://archive.org/details/dictionnairefonf00hftm
- A Fon forum to initiate new words and expressions: https://www.quicktopic.com/27/H/UbEFBKa7X46Ra
- Some languages institutions in Bénin: http://www.rifal.org/3_information.html
- Reading about how schools boys and girls were punished if they speak their mother tongue language: https://niamey.blogspot.com/2014/11/keeping-african-languages-out-of.html