Ewe, also called Togolese, is spoken by approximately 5 million people in West Africa, mainly in Ghana and Togo. It belongs to the Gbe group of languages, whose other major member is Fon, spoken mainly in Benin, and like many African languages Ewe is tonal.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count StatusWikipedia article on Ewe: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. RegionGhana and Togo (West Africa) 2 Classification
Language Kind Official StatusRecognized Regional or Minority Language 1 Connections
In Family
Source Ewe language, Wikipedia
Source Ewe language, Wikipedia
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Ewe is standardly written in a Latin-based alphabet with additional IPA-derived letters.
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Ewe (endonym: Eʋe or Eʋegbe [ɛβɛɡ͡bɛ]) or Togolese is a language spoken by approximately 5 million people in West Africa, mainly in Ghana and Togo.
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Ewe (endonym: Eʋe or Eʋegbe [ɛβɛɡ͡bɛ]) or Togolese is a language spoken by approximately 5 million people in West Africa, mainly in Ghana and Togo.
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1. Glottolog: Ewe (Glottolog languoid ewee1241)
GlottologEndangerment, AES status
AES status: not endangered
Endangerment
Recognized language (1951, Laws of the Gold Coast, Vernacular Literature Board Ordinance, as amended by Ordinance No. 44).
View the Source 2. Ewe language, Wikipedia
Lead paragraph
is a language spoken by approximately 5 million people in West Africa, mainly in Ghana and Togo.
Lead paragraph, place of use
mainly in Ghana and Togo
Infobox, ISO 639-3
ewe
In Family: Atlantic-Congo, Infobox: fam2
Atlantic-Congo
In Family: Gbe, Infobox, Language family
Gbe
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