What is the difference between les Wé and les wès?

[pluto2]

Could you assist me with French? In French what is the difference between les Wé and les wès?

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wé_(peuple)
http://www.wobebli.net/

 

[Fraggle Rocker]

Could you assist me with French? In French what is the difference between les Wé and les wès?

I think they're just struggling to transcribe the name of an African people in the French alphabet. A hundred years ago they would have called them les Oué. The inconsistency over the plural S is simply an expression of a genuine academic indecision over how to form the plural of the name of a foreign people. We have the same problem in English:

• The Greeks, the Russians, the Mohawks
• The French, the Chinese, the Sioux.