Lelemi (language)
| Lelemi | ||
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Spoken in |
Ghana , Togo | |
| speaker | approx. 61,800 | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | one of the national languages of Ghana | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
nic |
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| ISO 639-3 |
lef |
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Lelemi (also: Lefana / Lafana) is the language of the Lelemi (Buem / Balemi) ethnic group in Ghana and Togo , with around 55,000 speakers in the southeast of Ghana in the city of Jasikan and around 6,800 speakers in Togo. It belongs to the group of Kwa languages within the Niger-Congo language phylum .
The basic word sequence of the language is subject-verb-object (SVO).
See also
literature
- Hildegard Höftmann: The structure of Lelemi language: with texts and glossary. Publishing house Enzyklopädie, Leipzig 1971.