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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | The geographical limits of Eweland |
Author: | Sprigge, R.G.S. |
Year: | 1971 |
Periodical: | Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana |
Volume: | 12 |
Pages: | 101-102 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Ghana Togo |
Subjects: | Ewe national territory |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/41405796 |
Abstract: | If one refers only to piblished literature, at least three differently sized Ewelands are to be met with. And although to all three a more or less identical western frontiers are very different: 1. eastwards from the Volta to the river Haho, i.e. to about halfway across Togo; 2. from the Volta to beyond the Haho and up to the Togo-Dahomey border, with as an approximately eastern limit the river Mono; 3. as far as just beyond the river Ouémé and thus, on the coast, right up to Dahomey's border with Nigeria. There is a definite similarity between the Ewe dialects spoken in Adangbe and near the Haho's western bank and the 'Dahomean Language' (F5). Togo and Ghana are, by using an identical standardisation of Ewe, daily reducing the linguistic significance of their common political border. The espousing of F5 in Dahomey has inforced the Togo-Dahomey political border. |