page_title: Ewe language
hierarchical_section_title: Ewe language
caption_attribution_description: Esperanto: Mapo - en la angla - pri la distribuo de la diversaj lingvoj el la Gbe lingvaro Deutsch: Karte - beschriftet auf Englisch - über die Verbreitung der einzelnen Gbe Sprachen English: Map - labelled in English - showing the distribution of the various Gbe languages
context_page_description: Ewe is a Niger–Congo language spoken in Togo and southeastern Ghana by approximately 4.5 million people as a first language and a million or so more as a second language. 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, Herbert Stahlke, Nick Clements, Roberto Pazzi, Felix K. Ameka, Alan Stewart Duthie, Hounkpati B. Capo, Enoch Aboh, and Chris Collins.
context_section_description: Ewe (Èʋe or Èʋegbe [èβeɡ͡be]) is a Niger–Congo language spoken in Togo and southeastern Ghana by approximately 4.5 million people as a first language and a million or so  more as a second language. 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).
caption: Gbe languages
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