Alada language

Alada
Native to	Nigeria, Benin
Native speakers	; (260,000 "Gun" in Nigeria, 2000)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Volta–Niger Gbe Phla–Pherá? Alada; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(included in guw)
Glottolog	alad1239[2]

Alada (Arba) is a Gbe language of Nigeria and Benin that has proven difficult to classify. Ethnologue counts it and Tɔli as dialects of Gun, but Capo (1988) considers it one of the Phla–Pherá languages. Kluge (2000) found elements of both Fon–Gun and Phla–Pherá.

References

Gun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Alada". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[1] Gun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Alada". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.