Asụsụ Kwa

**Asụsụ Kwa**, nke a na-ekwukarị dị ka New Kwa, bụ ezinụlọ asụsụ a na-atụ aro ma ọ bụ nke a na'egbochighị n'akụkụ ndịda ọwụwa anyanwụ nke Ivory Coast, gafee ndịda Ghana, na etiti Togo. Ezinụlọ Kwa sitere na Niger-Congo phylum. Ọ bụ Gottlob Krause webatara aha ahụ na 1895 ma sitere na okwu maka 'ndị mmadụ' (*Kwa*) n'ọtụtụ n'ime asụsụ ndị a, dịka aha Akan gosipụtara. Alaka a nwere ihe dị ka asụsụ 50 dị iche iche nke ihe dị ka nde mmadụ 25 na-asụ. Ụfọdụ n'ime asụsụ Kwa kachasị ukwuu bụ Ewe, Akan na Baule.

## Asụsụ
Hụ igbe dị n'aka nri maka nhazi ugbu a.

Ìgwè asụsụ  iche iche dị na Kwa nwere njikọ chiri anya, ọ gosighi na ha dị nso karịa asụsụ Niger-Congo.

Stewart  kewara alaka ndị a dị mkpa, nke nyocha akụkọ ihe mere eme na-akwado dị ka otu dị mma:

* Potou-Tano (gụnyere Akan) 
* Ga-Dangme
* Na-Togo
* [n'oge gara aga] Gbe (ntinye a na-enyo enyo, ka ha na-egosi ihe ndị ọzọ dị na Kwa ka onye na-abịaru Akan nso) 

Asụsụ Lagoon nke ndịda Ivory Coast adịghị nso na nke ọ bụla n'ime ndị a, ma ọ bụ ibe ha, yabụ a hapụrụ ha n'enweghị otu:

* Avikam-Alladian
* Attié
* Abé
* Adjukru
* Abidji
* [Obi] Ega

Asụsụ Esuma, nke na-adịghịzi adị ca. 1800, ka na-enweghị ihe nzuzo.

Ebe ọ bụ na e wepụrụ Stewart, Ega, e weghachiri asụsụ Gbe na Volta-Niger, ma gbakwunye Apro.  debere ụfọdụ n'ime asụsụ Na-Togo na Ka-Togo n'alaka dị iche iche nke Kwa. Hụ infobox n'aka nri maka alaka ndị na-apụta.

Ethnologue kewara asụsụ Kwa n'ime mpaghara abụọ sara mbara: **Nyo** na Left bank, mana nke a abụghị nkewa usoro ọmụmụ. Ìgwè Nyo na-adaba n'alaka Potou-Tano na Ga-Dangme nke Stewart ma gụnyekwa asụsụ ndị a na-ejikọtaghị nke ndịda Ivory Coast, ebe a na-akpọ asụsụ Ka / Na-Togo na Gbe n**Akụkụ aka ekpe'' n'ihi na a na-asụ ha n'ebe ọwụwa anyanwụ nke Osimiri Volta.

== Akụkọ ihe mere eme nke aro ahụ ==
Gottlob Krause jiri okwu **kwa*<nowiki/>' mee ihe na 1885 maka asụsụ Akan (ma *Ọ bụ na* eleghị anya Tano), Gã, na Gbe, nke nwere kwa ma ọ bụ kua dị ka okwu ha maka 'mmadụ'. Kemgbe ahụ, a gbasaa atụmatụ ahụ nke ukwuu, naanị iji laghachi na ihe na-eru nso n'echiche mbụ ya.

N'afọ 1952, Westermann na Bryan gbasaa Kwa na asụsụ dị iche iche nke Lagoon nke ndịda Ivory Coast na ihe a na-akpọ ugbu a [[Asụsụ Volta-Niger]] nke ndịda Nigeria. Greenberg (1963) gbakwunyere Asụsụ Kru nke Liberia, asụsụ Ghana-Togo Mountain nke Westermann na Bryan wepụrụ kpọmkwem, na [[Asụsụ ndị Ijoid|Ijaw]] nke Niger delta; West Kwa gụnyere asụsụ si Liberia ruo Dahomey (Republic of Benin), na East Kwa asụsụ nke Nigeria. Bennett & Sterk (1977) tụrụ aro na asụsụ Yoruboid na Igboid bụ nke [[Asụsụ Benue-Congo|Benue-Congo]] kama nke Kwa. Stewart (1989) wepụrụ Kru, Ijaw, na Volta-Niger (East Kwa), mana o debere asụsụ Ghana-Togo Mountain na Lagoon, yana ịgbakwunye asụsụ ole na ole a na-amaghị ama, nke a kọwara ọhụrụ. Nchịkọta Stewart bụ ihe ndabere nke echiche ndị ọzọ na-adịbeghị anya. Iji wepụ nke a site na nhazi Greenberg, a na-akpọ ezinụlọ ahụ "New Kwa" mgbe ụfọdụ.

== Okwu ntụnyere ==
Nkọwa okwu ndị bụ isi nke Kwa na asụsụ ndị yiri ya site na Dumestre (1971) na isi mmalite ndị ọzọ: 


=== Ọnụ ọgụgụ ===
Ntụnyere nke ọnụọgụ n'asụsụ ọ bụla: 


== Hụkwa ==

* Nrụzigharị Proto-Potou-Akanic (Wiktionary) 
* [[Asụsụ Gbe]]
* Asụsụ Kru
* Asụsụ Gur

== Ihe odide ==

=== Ihe edeturu n'okpuru ala ===
gụnyere asụsụ si Liberia ruo Dahomey (Republic of Benin), na East Kwa asụsụ nke Nigeria. Bennett & Sterk (1977) tụrụ aro na asụsụ Yoruboid na Igboid bụ nke Benue-Congo kama nke Kwa. Stewart (1989) wepụrụ Kru, Ijaw, na Volta-Niger (East Kwa), mana o debere asụsụ Ghana-Togo Mountaingụnyere asụsụ si Liberia ruo Dahomey (Republic of Benin), na East Kwa asụsụ nke Nigeria. Bennett & Sterk (1977) tụrụ aro na asụsụ Yoruboid na Igboid bụ nke [[Asụsụ Benue-Congo|Benue-Congo]] kama nke Kwa. Stewart (1989) wepụrụ Kru, Ijaw, na Volta-Niger (East Kwa), mana o debere asụsụ Ghana-Togo Mountaingụnyere asụsụ si Liberia ruo Dahomey (Republic of Benin), na East Kwa asụsụ nke Nigeria. Bennett & Sterk (1977) tụrụ aro na asụsụ Yoruboid na Igboid bụ nke [[Asụsụ Benue-Congo|Benue-Congo]] kama nke Kwa. Stewart (1989) wepụrụ Kru, Ijaw, na Volta-Niger (East Kwa), mana o debere asụsụ Ghana-Togo Mountain

=== Ihe edere ===

* Bennett, Patrick R. & Sterk, Jan P. (1977) 'South Central Niger-Congo: A reclassification'. Studies in African Linguistics, 8, 241&#x2D;.
* Hintze, Ursula (1959) *Bibliographie der Kwa-Sprachen und der Sprachen der Togo-Restvölker (mit 11 zweifarbigen Sprachenkarten) *. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
* Stewart, John M. (1989) 'Kwa'. Na: Bendor-Samuel & Hartell (ed.) *Asụsụ Niger-Congo*. Lanham, MD: The University Press of America.
* Westermann, Diedrich Hermann (1952) *Asụsụ nke West Africa'' (Handbook of African Languages Part II). London/New York/Toronto: Oxford University Press.
* Williamson, Kay & Blench, Roger (2000) 'Niger-Congo', na Heine, Bernd and Nurse, Derek (eds) African Languages - An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University press, peeji nke 11-42.&nbsp;

## Njikọ mpụga

* Journal of West African Languages: Asụsụ Kwa
Òtù:Pages with unreviewed translations