Likpe or Sekpele (also ''Bosele, Mu'') is spoken in the mountainous lower part of the
Oti Region of
Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...
. It belongs to the geographic group of
Ghana–Togo Mountain languages
The Ghana–Togo Mountain languages, formerly called Togorestsprachen (''Togo Remnant languages'') and Central Togo languages, form a grouping of about fourteen languages spoken in the mountains of the Ghana–Togo borderland. They are part of t ...
(traditionally called the or Togo Remnant languages) of the
Kwa branch of
Niger–Congo.
Phonology
Consonants
* and are rare.
* Clusters include , , and .
Vowels
Tones
Likpe has three tones: high, low, and mid.
Notes
References
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Further reading
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External links
* ELAR archive o
Description and Documentation of Sekpele
Languages of Ghana
Ghana–Togo Mountain languages
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