Ewe language - Definition and Overview

Ewe (pronounced like "ay-way") is a Niger-Congo language spoken in Ghana and Togo. Ewe is a tonal language, part of a dialect continuum commonly called Gbe. Other Gbe languages include Fon, Gen, Aŋlo, Aja and Gũ.

Ewe is one of the better documented languages of Africa, partly due to the massive work of Diedrich Hermann Westermann, who published many dictionaries and grammars of Ewe and several other Gbe languages. Other linguists that 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) and Alan Stewart Duthie (semantics, phonetics).

Ewe uses the following alphabet in the orthography

A a B b D d Ð ɖ E e Ɛ ɛ F f Ƒ ƒ G g Ɣ ɣ H h I i J j K k L l M m N n Ŋ ŋ O o Ɔ ɔ P p R r S s T t U u ũ V v Ʋ ʋ W w X x Y y Z z

External links

Wikipedia articles written in this language are located at the

Ewe language Wikipedia

• Ethnologue report for Ewe (http://www.ethnologue.org/show_language.asp?code=EWE)