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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 {{kwa-lang-stub