Editing Gbe languages (section)

===Geography and demography===
The Gbe language area is bordered to the west and east by the [[Volta River]] in Ghana and the [[Weme River]] in Benin. The northern border is between 6 and 8 degrees [[latitude]] and the southern border is the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] coast. The area is neighbored mainly by [[Kwa languages]], except for the east and north-east, where [[Yorùbá language|Yorùbá]] is spoken. To the west, [[Ga–Dangme languages|Ga–Dangme]], [[Guang language|Guang]] and [[Akan language|Akan]] are spoken. To the north, it is bordered by [[Adele language|Adele]], [[Awuna|Aguna]], Akpafu, Lolobi, and Yorùbá.

Estimates of the total number of speakers of Gbe languages vary considerably. Capo (1988) gives a modest estimate of four million, while SIL's [[Ethnologue]] (15th edition, 2005) gives eight million<!-- Note: number obtained by adding up speaker numbers of all individual Gbe languages -->. The most widely spoken Gbe languages are Ewe ([[Ghana]] and [[Togo]]) and Fon ([[Benin]], eastern Togo) at four million and 3 million speakers, respectively. Ewe is a language of formal education for secondary schools and universities in Ghana, and is also used in non-formal education in [[Togo]]. In Benin, Aja (740,000 speakers) and Fon were two of the six national languages selected by the government for adult education in 1992.