Everything about Ewe Language totally explained
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|region=Southeast corner of Ghana, southern Togo
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Atlantic-Congo
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Volta-Congo
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Kwa
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Left Bank
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Ewe (native name:
Eʋegbe) is a
Kwa language spoken in
Ghana,
Togo and
Benin by approximately five million people. Ewe is part of a cluster of related languages commonly called
Gbe, stretching from eastern Ghana to western
Nigeria. Other Gbe languages include
Fon and
Aja. Like other Gbe languages, Ewe is a
tonal language.
The German Africanist
Diedrich Hermann Westermann published many dictionaries and grammars of Ewe and several other Gbe languages. Other linguists who have worked on Ewe include
Gilbert Ansre (tone, syntax),
Hounkpati B. Capo (phonology, phonetics), Herbert Stahlke (morphology, tone), Roberto Pazzi (anthropology, lexicography), Felix K. Ameka (semantics, cognitive linguistics), Alan Stewart Duthie (semantics, phonetics) and Chris Collins (syntax).
Sounds
Consonants
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Bilabial |
Labiodental |
Alveolar |
Retroflex |
Palatal |
Velar |
Labial-velar |
Glottal |
| Plosive | p |
b |
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t |
d |
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ɖ |
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k |
ɡ |
k͡p |
mi 'you', and the second person singular pronoun wò 'you' is marked low to distinguish it from the third person plural pronoun wo 'they/them'
- ekpɔ wò [ɛ́k͡pɔ̀wɔ̀] — 'he saw you'
- ekpɔ wo [ɛ́k͡pɔ̀wɔ́] — 'he saw them'
Grammar
Ewe is a Subject Verb Object language. The possessor precedes the head noun. Adjectives, numerals, demonstratives and relative clauses follow the head noun.
Ewe has a rich system of serial verb constructions (see Ansre 1961).
Status
Ewe is a national language in Togo and Ghana.
Further Information
Get more info on 'Ewe Language'.
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