Ewe

E53601

Ewe is a major Niger–Congo language spoken primarily in southeastern Ghana and southern Togo by the Ewe people.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Ewe language 28
Ewe people 23
Ewe canonical 16

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Gbe language
Niger–Congo language
language
closelyRelatedTo Aja language
Fon language
Gen language
ethnicGroup Ewe self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ewe people
glottocode ewee1241
hasBibleTranslation Ewe self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ewe Bible
hasFeature advanced tongue root vowel harmony (ATR)
contrastive vowel length
isolating morphology
noun class–like agreement system
phonemic tone
prenasalized stops
serial verb constructions
subject–verb–object word order
tonal language
hasOrthography standardized orthography in Ghana
standardized orthography in Togo
ISO639-1 ee
ISO639-2 ewe
ISO639-3 ewe
languageFamily Niger–Congo languages
surface form: Niger–Congo
primaryRegion southeastern Ghana
southern Togo
region Maritime Region of Togo
Oti Region
Volta Region
regulatingBody Bureau of Ghana Languages
spokenIn Benin
Ghana
Nigeria
Togo
standardVariety Amedzofe dialect
Anlo dialect
Peki dialect
Tongu dialect
subfamily Atlantic–Congo languages
surface form: Atlantic–Congo

Gbe languages
surface form: Gbe

Kwa
usedAs lingua franca in parts of Volta Region of Ghana
usedFor radio broadcasting in Ghana
radio broadcasting in Togo
usedIn Christian liturgy in Ghana
Christian liturgy in Togo
education in Ghana
education in Togo
writingSystem Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (69)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Aja language hasNeighboringLanguage Ewe
this entity surface form: Ewe language
Gen language neighboringLanguages Ewe
this entity surface form: Ewe language
Gen language lexicalSimilarityWith Ewe
this entity surface form: Ewe language
Oti Region hasEthnicGroup Ewe
this entity surface form: Ewe people
Oti Region hasLanguageCommunity Ewe
this entity surface form: Ewe language
Maritime Region of Togo majorEthnicGroup Ewe
this entity surface form: Ewe people
Maritime Region of Togo containsEthnicGroup Ewe
this entity surface form: Ewe people
Gold Coast Colony ethnicGroup Ewe
this entity surface form: Ewe people
West Africans hasSubgroup Ewe
this entity surface form: Ewe people
West Africans speaksLanguage Ewe
this entity surface form: Ewe language
Fante language hasNeighboringLanguage Ewe
this entity surface form: Ewe language
Agotime Kpetoe hasEthnicGroup Ewe
this entity surface form: Ewe people
Fon people relatedEthnicGroup Ewe
this entity surface form: Ewe people
Ho languageSpoken Ewe
Volta Region of Ghana ethnicGroup Ewe
subject surface form: Volta Region
this entity surface form: Ewe people
Volta Region of Ghana language Ewe
subject surface form: Volta Region
this entity surface form: Ewe language
Jerry John Rawlings ethnicGroup Ewe
this entity surface form: Ewe people