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Ewe language
Ewe (''(unicode:Èʋe)'' or ''(unicode:Èʋegbe)'' (:èβeɡ͡be))〔(), p. 243〕 is a Niger–Congo language spoken in southeastern Ghana and southern Togo by over three million people.〔Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. ''Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition''. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/〕 Ewe is part of a cluster of related languages commonly called Gbe; the other major Gbe language is Fon of Benin. Like most 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).
==History==
Oral history tells of a migration of the Gbe people from Ketu in present-day Benin. It is believed that the Ewes settled first at Notsie in Togo and then moved to southeastern Ghana due to the cruelty of Togbe Agorkoli. The Ewe went through several mass exoduses beginning in the 11th century and placing current Ewe peoples in Togo Ghana and Benin in the 17th century. The most famous of these is their migration from Notsie under the reign of King Agorkoli I. In the oral stories passed down through story telling traditions, King Agorkoli was very cruel, as such the Ewe devised a plan to escape. Every night, the women would throw water on the walls of the kingdom which was made of mud, glass, rock, and thorns. Eventually the wall softened and they were able to cut a hole through a section of it and escape during the night. The men soon followed and walked backwards so that their footsteps would seem to lead into the kingdom.
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