Directory of Kwa Languages Resources

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General linguistic material about Kwa languages or specific information about minor languages. Major Kwa languages (Akan, Ewe, Baule, Fon) have their own category.

Resources in This Category

• How to become a 'Kwa' verb

  http://www.journalofwestafricanlanguages.org/jwal1/index.php/downloads/viewcategory/168-volume-30-number-2
  An article in the Journal of West African Languages concerned with the historical development of a verb typology in Kwa.

• Igbirra notes and word-list

  http://www.journalofwestafricanlanguages.org/jwal1/index.php/downloads/summary/149-volume-1-number-1/34-igbirra-notes-and-word-list
  An article in the Journal of West African Languages describing the basic sounds, tones and vocabulary of Igbirra, besides including a folk tale.

• Journnal of West African Languages: Articles on Fon

  http://www.journalofwestafricanlanguages.org/jwal1/index.php/downloads/viewcategory/116-volume-22-number-1
  An entire volume of this journal dedicated to the Fon language.

• The Gbe Language Continuum of West Africa

  http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/1714/kluge.pdf?sequence=5
  This paper compares lexical and grammatical features of 49 Gbe varieties which constitute a language continuum (or dialect chain) in West Africa belonging to the Kwa family of Niger-Congo. Among them, Aja, Ewe, Fon, Gen, and Gun.

• The Language Gulper: Kwa Languages

  http://www.languagesgulper.com/eng/Kwa.html
  Overview, classification, shared features, and bibliography of the Kwa family, spoken in the west coast of Africa.

 

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