| Also Known As: Adangme
Description:
Adangme (also called Dangme), is a Kwa language spoken in south-eastern Ghana by 800,000 people.
Some sources list Adangbe as another name for the same language whereas Ethnologue lists it as a different language in the Left bank branch of the Kwa family, and it has a separate ISO 639-3 code of 'adq'.
Adangme is a Kwa language, part of the Niger-Congo family. It is very closely related to Ga, and together they form the Ga-Dangme branch within Kwa.
Adangme is spoken in Ghana by 800,000 people.
There are six main dialects which coincide with political divisions. The coastal dialects are Ada, Ningo and Prampram (Gbugbla). The inland dialects are Shai (Sɛ), Krobo (Klo) and Osudoku.
Adangme has 7 oral vowels and 5 nasal vowels.
Adangme has three tones: high, mid and low. Like many West African languages, it has tone terracing.
The possible syllable structures are V, CV, or CCV where the second consonant is /l/.
Adangme is written with a form of the Latin alphabet. Tones and nasalisation are not normally written.
Orthographic and phonemic correspondences include the following:..... full article at Wikipedia |
