Ewe leid
Ewe | |
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Èʋegbe | |
Native tae | Ghana, Togo |
Region | Soothren Ghana east o the Volta River, soothren Togo |
Ethnicity | Ewe fowk |
Native speakers | (3.6 million citit 1991–2003)[1] |
Laitin | |
Leid codes | |
ISO 639-1 | ee |
ISO 639-2 | ewe |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:ewe – Ewewci – Wacikef – Kpesiwud – Wudu |
Ewe (Èʋe or Èʋegbe [èβeɡ͡be])[2] is a Niger–Congo leid spoken in sootheastren Ghana an soothren Togo bi ower three million fowk.[3] Ewe is pairt o a cluster o relatit leids commonly cried Gbe; the ither major Gbe leid is Fon o Benin. Lik maist African leids, Ewe is tonal.
The German Africanist Diedrich Hermann Westermann published mony dictionaries an grammars o Ewe an several ither Gbe leids. Ither linguists who hae wirked on Ewe an closely relatit leids include Gilbert Ansre (tone, syntax), Herbert Stahlke (morphology, tone), Nick Clements (tone, syntax), Roberto Pazzi (anthropology, lexicography), Felix K. Ameka (semantics, cognitive linguistics), Alan Stewart Duthie (semantics, phonetics), Hounkpati B. Capo (phonology, phonetics), Enoch Aboh (syntax), an Chris Collins (syntax).
References
- ↑ Ewe at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
Waci at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
Kpesi at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) - ↑ [1], p. 243
- ↑ Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/