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.

Grampound With Creed is bordered by St Stephen-in-Brannel parish to the north, St Ewe parish to the east and Cuby parish to the south.

* Isle of Ewe, an island off the west coast of Scotland

This territory extended from the non-Yoruba areas west of the Egbado Corridor far into Ewe controlled territory in modern Togo.

Prior to the invention of tension rods drum skins were attached and tuned by rope systems such as that used on the Djembe or pegs and ropes such as that used on Ewe Drums, a system rarely used today, although sometimes seen on regimental marching band snare drums.

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 city was founded in the 18th century by the Ewe people.

The gardens are by road from the town and railway station of St Austell, and are principally in the civil parish of St Ewe, although elements of the eastern gardens are in Mevagissey parish.

Koe Ewe Teik, the Malaysian FA's member of the referee's committee, led the move for its adoption by FIFA.

Though the African slaves had various ethnic origins, the Bantu and Guinean-Sudanese groups contributed by far to most of the borrowings, above all the Kimbundu ( from Angola ), Kikongo ( from Angola, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo ), Yoruba / Nagô ( from Nigeria ), and Jeje / Ewe language ( from Benin ).

Cross-rhythm was first identified as the basis of sub-Saharan rhythm in the early writings of A. M. Jones, and was later explained in great detail in lectures by the Ewe master drummer and scholar C. K.

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.

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

The city of Notsie was circumscribed by a large defensive wall which became a barrier to the Ewe devising escape.

These festive woven patterns, which exist in numerous varieties, were originally made by the Ashanti and Ewe peoples of Ghana and Togo.

Magazine editor Nathan Griffith's book on the breed, Sheep Success: A Better Ewe & Big Bucks Too, the largest recorded representative of the Cotswold breed in America was Broadfield's Pride, owned by Charles Mattocks during the 1870s.

The dominant language in the region is Ewe, closely followed by Twi.

The Ewe are essentially a patrilineal people ; the founder of a community was the established chief, and was then usually succeeded by his paternal relatives.

Ewe, also written Evhe, or Eʋe, is a major dialect cluster of Gbe or Tadoid ( Capo 1991, Duthie 1996 ) spoken in some south-eastern parts of the Volta Region of Ghana, across to southern Togo, and as far as just across the Togo-Benin border by about three million people.

Ewe statuary is characterized by its famous statuettes which illustrate the worship of the twins, the ibéji.

These drums traveled with the Ewe, Fon, Akan, and Yoruba people during the New World diaspora.

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 the Akan wars against the Ewe, Ewe people and weavers were captured.

Some speakers are bilingual or multilingual in Ewe and French or English and / or other languages such as Akan, Ga, Hausa, Kabiye, Akposo, Yoruba etc.

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This tradition is shared throughout West Africa due to Akan Influence, from Benin / Dahomey ( Fon ) and Togo ( Ewe ), to the Ga, to other West Africans and throughout the African diaspora.