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Avatime has nine vowels, /i ɪ e ɛ a ɔ o ʊ u/, though the vowels /ɪ ʊ/ have been overlooked in most descriptions of the language. It is not clear if the difference between /i e o u/ and /ɪ ɛ ɔ ʊ/ is one of advanced and retracted tongue root (laryngeal contraction), as in so many languages of Ghana, or of vowel height: different phonetic parameters support different analyses.
The language is a fairly typical representative of the Western Oti–Volta low-level grouping within Gur, which includes several of the more widely spoken languages of Northern Ghana, and also Moore, the largest African language of Burkina Faso (and the largest of all Gur languages, with millions of speakers).
GhaPE's substrate languages such as Akan influenced use of the spoken pidgin in Ghana. [4] [10] [11] Other influencers of GhaPE include Ga, Ewe, and Nzema. [4] While women understand GhaPE, they are less likely to use it in public or professional settings. [10] Mixed-gender groups more often converse in SGE or another language. [12]
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Rapp (1933) [full citation needed] compares the Nafaanra numerals for three (táárɛ) and hundred (lafaa) with eta and ke-lafa from Mpre, a hitherto unclassified language from Ghana. The Mpre eta is Kwa -like (cf. Brong esã , Ga etɛ ), whereas the Nafaanra form táárɛ is transparently related to the forms found in the other (non-Kwa ...
Ga is a Kwa language, part of the Niger–Congo family.It is very closely related to Adangme, and together they form the Ga–Dangme branch within Kwa.. Ga is the predominant language of the Ga people, an ethnic group of Ghana.