| Also Known As: Krepi,Gbe,Ehwe,Eue,Popo,Ebwe,Krepe,Eve,Eibe,Vhe,Efe,Éwé
Description:
Ewe (name used by native speakers: Eʋe, Eʋegbe) is a Niger-Congo language spoken in Ghana, Togo and Benin by over three million people. Ewe is part of a cluster of related languages commonly called Gbe, spoken in southeastern Ghana and southern Togo. Other Gbe languages include Fon and Aja. Like other Gbe languages, Ewe is a tone 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 and closely related languages 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), and Chris Collins (syntax).
The consonant shown in the left column under each place of articulation is voiceless, and the one shown in the right column is voiced. [ɦ] is a voiced fricative which has also been described as uvular or pharyngeal.
The nasal consonants [m, n, ɲ, ŋ] do not have phonemic status, as they are predictable variants of oral..... full article at Wikipedia |
