Gbe

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of knight grand cross of the order of the British Empire (a British order of chivalry). abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A family of closely related languages, such as Ewe and Fon, spoken near the south coast of western Africa.

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"Vodun is a syncretic African-American or African diasporic faith that combines traditional religions of west and central Africa with Catholicism. Versions are found in Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Louisiana, and in west Africa among speakers of the Gbe language family."

Etymology

From the word gbe, meaning "language" in these languages.

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