Vodun or Vudun ( spirit in the Fon and Ewe languages, with a nasal high-tone u ; also spelled Vodon, Vodoun, Voudou, Voodoo etc.

The most fundamental cross-rhythm in Ewe music, and Sub-Saharan African music traditions in general, is three-against-two ( 3: 2 ), or six-against-four ( 6: 4 ), also known as a vertical hemiola.

Many are trilingual, also speaking French and Fongbe, the lingua-franca of southern Benin, while Ewe is spoken as a second language by those Aja living in Togo.

Its population is mainly from the Ga tribal group, but houses also members of Hausa, Ewe, and Akan.

The article also notes that the phrase ayeko — often doubled as ayeko, ayeko — is a popular chant meaning " well done, or congratulations " among the Akan and Ewe people in modern-day Togo, Ghana, and Benin.

In Togo, Ewe is also used in adult literacy programmes leading to an increasing number of publications in the language on topics of health, agriculture, and child rearing, among others ( Duthie and Vlaardingerbroek 1981 ).

In some ( the Ewe type mentioned above ) interaction of tone and intonation is restricted to the ends of intonation spans.

Ewe statuary is characterized by its famous statuettes which illustrate the worship of the ibeji.

Little is known about the history of Togo before the late fifteenth century, when Portuguese explorers arrived, although there are signs of Ewe settlement for several centuries before their arrival.

Vodun is practised by the Ewe people, Kabye people, Mina people and Fon people of southern and central Togo, southern and central Benin and ( under a different name ) the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria.

In Togo, about half the population practices indigenous religions, of which Vodun is by far the largest, with some 2. 5 million followers ; 13 % of the population of Vodunists, 20 million are Ewe people.

One language that does make such a distinction is Ewe, having both kinds of fricatives, though the labiodentals are produced with greater articulatory force.

The importance of cassava to many Africans is epitomised in the Ewe ( a language spoken in Ghana, Togo and Benin ) name for the plant, agbeli, meaning " there is life ".

This sound is a common phoneme in such languages as Suki ( a language of New Guinea ) and Ewe and Logba ( both spoken in Ghana ).

The Gullah language is based on English, with strong influences from West and Central African languages such as Mandinka, Wolof, Bambara, Fula, Mende, Vai, Akan, Ewe, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Kongo, Umbundu and Kimbundu.

Ewe ( Èʋe or Èʋegbe ) is a Niger – Congo language spoken in southeastern Ghana and southern Togo 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 most sub-Saharan languages, Ewe is tonal.

It is believed that the Ewe settled first in Togo and then moved to southeastern Ghana.

The form a continuum with Ewe and Gen ( Mina ), which share a mutual intelligibility level of 85 %; the Ewe varieties Gbin, Ho, Kpelen, Kpesi, and Vhlin might be considered a third cluster of Western Gbe dialects between Ewe and Gen, though Kpesi is as close or closer to the Waci and Vo dialects which remain in Ewe in that scenario.

Waci intervenes geographically between Ewe proper and Gen ; Wudu is further north, on the northern edge of Aja territory, and Kpesi forms a Gbe island in the Kabye area.

In interjections, but not in normal words, pulmonic ingressive vowels such as frequently occur in Scandinavian languages, e. g. Swedish, and contrary to the common view that pulmonic ingressive speech is restricted to northern Europe, speech technologist Robert Eklund has recently shown that it occurs on most continents, in a wide variety of languages of different typological origins, e. g. and Ewe.

In Ewe, is used for back-channeling, to indicate that one is listening ( like ah or I see in English ).

Different still is the Ewe language found in Togo, where only full sentences and their combinations are translated into the drum language.

The Heligan estate is located on the steep slopes above Mevagissey, albeit mostly in the adjoining civil parish of St Ewe.

The many indigenous African languages spoken by Togolese include: Gbe languages such as Ewe and Mina ( the two major African languages in the south ), Kabiyé ( in the north ), as well as Kotokoli or Tem, Aja, Akessele, Bassar, Losso, and others.

The two major groups are the Ewe in the South and the Kabye in the North.

While they are one of the two major ethnic groups within the country of Togo — the other being the Ewe — the region has experienced significant infrastructure improvements due to the country's former president, Gnassingbé Eyadema, who was of Kabye ethnicity.

They include five major dialect clusters: Ewe, Fon, Aja, Gen ( Mina ), and Phla – Pherá.

# The Gbe speakers of Togo, Ghana and Benin ( Adja, Mina, Ewe, Fon )

The German Africanist Diedrich Hermann Westermann published many dictionaries and grammars of Ewe and several other Gbe languages.

The most widely spoken Gbe language is Ewe ( 3 million speakers in Ghana and Togo ), followed by Fon ( 1. 7 million, mainly in Benin ).

In this classification, Phla – Pherá is considered one of the five branches of Gbe, the others being Ewe, Gen, Fon, and Ajá.

They speak the Ewe language ( Eʋegbe ) and are related to other speakers of Gbe languages, such as, the Fon, Gen, Phla Phera, and the Aja people of Togo and Benin.

The Origin of the Ewe is similar to those who speak Gbe languages.

Ewe, and for that matter Gbe, belongs to the Kwa family of Niger-Congo.

To the east are the Gbe dialects — Gen, Aja and Xwla — all of which have degrees of intelligibility with Ewe ( Kluge 2000 ).

In Ketu, the ancestors of the Gbe speaking peoples Ewe ,( Fon, Aja, etc.

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 ).

Some of the commonly named Ewe (' Vhe ') dialects are Tɔwun, Awlan, Gbín, Pecí, Kpándo, Vhlin, Hó, Avɛ ́ no, Vo, Kpelen, Vɛ ́, Dayin, Agu, Fodome, Wancé, Wací, Adángbe ( Capo ).

Most of the southern peoples use the Ewe or Mina languages, which are closely related and spoken in commercial sectors throughout Togo.

Location where Ewe is spoken in Yellow