The new Ewe orthography : based on the GBE uniform standard orthography / created by Hounkpati B.C. Capo.

By:

Capo, Hounkpati B. C [author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Publication details: Cape Town : Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society ; Garome, Benin : LABO GBE (INT), 2000.Description: 107 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

1919799362

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: New Ewe orthography.

Incomplete contents:

Book 1 - Acquiring the new Ewe orthography, Book 2 - The pan dialectal approach to orthography.

Summary: The present monograph shows how Ewe can be best written as a language on its own, yet allow texts in it to be read and largely understood by speakers of other Gbe communities: this is done through the Gbe Uniform Standard Orthography (GUSO). The Gbe language unit, spoken in Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria, comprises more than fifty dialects including such well-known members as Fon, Gen-Mina, Aja, Gun and Ewe.By promoting this type of orthographic system, CASAS intends to show that African languages are not as many as some people suggest and that the true development of Africa implies the uncompromising usage of its indigenous languages as media for science and technology.

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Book 1 - Acquiring the new Ewe orthography, Book 2 - The pan dialectal approach to orthography.

The present monograph shows how Ewe can be best written as a language on its own, yet allow texts in it to be read and largely understood by speakers of other Gbe communities: this is done through the Gbe Uniform Standard Orthography (GUSO). The Gbe language unit, spoken in Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria, comprises more than fifty dialects including such well-known members as Fon, Gen-Mina, Aja, Gun and Ewe.By promoting this type of orthographic system, CASAS intends to show that African languages are not as many as some people suggest and that the true development of Africa implies the uncompromising usage of its indigenous languages as media for science and technology.

Text in English and Ewe.

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