Ewe Bible

Product Details

Paperback: 999 pages
Publisher: American Bible Society (February 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9966408479
ISBN-13: 978-9966408471 / 9789966408471
Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.6 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces

Ewe (Èʋe or Èʋegbe [èβeɡ͡be]) is a Niger–Congo language spoken in southeastern Ghana by over three million people. Ewe is part of a cluster of related languages commonly called Gbe; the other major Gbe language is Fon of Benin. Like many African languages, Ewe is tonal.

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).

Ewe
Èʋegbe
Native to	Ghana
Region	Southern Ghana east of the Volta River
Ethnicity	Ewe people
Native speakers	20 million (2017) ^[1])
Language family	Niger–Congo Volta–Congo Volta–Niger Gbe Ewe
Writing system	Latin (Ewe alphabet) Ewe Braille
Language codes
ISO 639-1	`ee`
ISO 639-2	`ewe`
ISO 639-3	Variously: `ewe` – Ewe `wci` – Waci `kef` – Kpesi
Glottolog	`ewee1241` Ewe^[2] `kpes1238` Kpessi^[3] `waci1239` Waci Gbe^[4]
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