#ewe language

[linguistika]

Sooooo.... this happened (this girl has literally been to Ghana like... why am i her top resource for Ewe) (i'm kind of flattered though) (if anyone knows of any resources, let me know)

[allethnicities]

Ethnonyms: Ewe, Ehve, Eve, Ahoulan, Ebwe, Kotafon, Krepi

Total population: 6,959,000

Ethnolinguistic classification: Niger-Congo → Kwa → Gbe → Ewe

Homeland: Oyo in western Nigeria

Regions with significant populations: the Republic of Ghana, Volta Region, Ada East District, Eastern Region, the Togolese Republic the Republic of Benin

Languages and dialects: Ewe / Eʋe / Evhe, Aŋlɔ, Tɔŋu (Tɔŋgu), Avenor, Ewedomegbe, Watsyi, Ho, Kpedze, Hohoe, Peki, Kpando, Danyi, Kpele, Waci, Kpesi/Kpessi

Religion: Christianity, West African Vodún, Islam

The Ewe are a major West African ethnic group whose communities are concentrated in southeastern Ghana, southern Togo, and southwestern Benin, with the name often functioning as an umbrella for many locally named groups such as Anlo, Abutia, Be, Ho, and others that share closely related speech and culture. Britannica traces their historical migration from Nigeria to between the 14th and 16th centuries, and also emphasizes that they never formed a single centralized state; instead, they remained a network of independent communities that could ally with one another in wartime. Linguistically, the Ewe speak Ewe, a Gbe language of the Kwa branch, and in practice the language exists in several mutually related dialects that help bind together a population spread across modern national borders. Social life traditionally centers on kinship, lineage solidarity, and strong communal obligation, with older forms of village and town life shaped by farming, fishing, weaving, and other craft production; Encyclopedia.com also notes that many Ewe live in towns and large villages rather than isolated homesteads. Religiously, Ewe cosmology is organized around the creator god Mawu and a wide range of lesser divinities and spirits, while ancestral power is believed to sustain or disrupt everyday life, making ritual, sacrifice, and moral conduct deeply woven into the social order. In historical and contemporary life, this ritual world has remained resilient even under Christianity, since Britannica notes that many Ewe have become Christians while older religious ideas continue to shape identity, ceremony, and moral imagination. Their identity is also distinctly transnational: scholarship on Ewe border communities shows that the colonial partition of the Ghana–Togo frontier split families, ritual spaces, and political networks, yet Ewe communities continue to sustain cross-border ties through chiefs, ceremonies, and shared memory.

[akan-institute]

Lo Wo - Love You

Even a word as basic as love originates from our languages. Lo wo, is found in the Ewe language which has the same root as the Akan language and is also spoken in the same country.

Lo means love. Wo means you.

From where does the word love originate? The root is lo, love. Wo, you.

If you understand languages the alphabets V and W can be interchanged, (this, is dependent on the language). In the Dutch language, the Alphabet W will always be rendered as V.

Lo wo, lo vo, love. Even a word as basic as love originates from our languages.

[expert325]

Aymara and Quechua as business languages?

Week 22 of the sad year 2022. A change in the list of top ten economic powers of the world is preparing to happen. Rising commodity prices a huge (and realized) opportunity for Africa and South Ame…

..... new ventures in the raw materials industry finally have a solid financial base. New sources of energy. Large-scale energy storage. And all these changes thanks to the business-financial suicide of Russia.

[nyatefegblomele-blog]

Xɔlɔ susu

Me nya be Eⱱegbe menye e gbe gã o, ta ma tã ŋglo ndesiade le fi eye amedeke maseme o...medibe ma gblo be, me susu nye fe xɔlɔwo.  Enye nuvɔ a?  Ao de.  Egbe la, Mawu gblɔ nde nam tso nye fe “sama” he ve dome nam, ta me le nye fe xɔlɔwo susu.  Evɔ.