The Nyangbo-Tafi language is spoken in the

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. It is considered one of the

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 ...

of the Kwa family. It consists of two distinct varieties which '' Ethnologue'' treats as separate languages, Nyangbo (''Tutrugbu'') and Tafi (''Tegbo''). The differences are reported to be only phonological but people without prior contact have only 67% intelligibility with the other variety.

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* Languages of Ghana Ghana–Togo Mountain languages {{kwa-lang-stub