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lang="und"><b>1971</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Ansre" class="extiw" title="w:Gilbert Ansre">Gilbert Ansre</a>, “Language Standardisation in Sub-Saharan Africa”, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sebeok" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Sebeok">Thomas A[lbert] Sebeok</a>, editor, <cite>Current Trends in Linguistics</cite>, volume 7 (Linguistics in Sub-Saharan Africa), The Hague, Paris: Mouton, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lccn.loc.gov/64003663">→LCCN</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/currenttrendsinl0007sebe/page/687/mode/1up">page <span class="None" lang="und">687</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">He continued that Lome, which was mainly Aŋlɔ-speaking, would become the capital town, the educational headquarters, and the terminal for the proposed railway system which was to service the interior. This would give the western <b>Eʋes</b> more trading advantages. He added that already, indigenous clerks in the provincial centres of Kpalime and Kpando were western <b>Eʋes</b> (mostly Aŋlɔs) and not Popos (Anexɔs).</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2011</b></span>, Jakob Spieth, “<span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>The HO – Tribe<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span> Economic Life”, in Emmanuel F. Tsaku, Marcellinus Edorh, Raphael Avornyo, Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu, transl., edited by Komla Amoaku, <cite>The Ewe People: A Study of the Ewe People in German Togo</cite>, Legon, Accra, Ghana: Sub-Saharan Publishers, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-9988-647-90-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-9988-647-90-2">→ISBN</a></small>, page <span class="None" lang="und">375</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">As the <b>Eʋes</b> (that is the people of Ho with some Ewes from surrounding towns) fled to Ave during the Asante war, they brought it with them from there.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2011</b></span>, <span class="None" lang="und">D. N. A.</span>, <cite>Hey, You Better Know Before You Go!</cite>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafford_Publishing" class="extiw" title="w:Trafford Publishing">Trafford Publishing</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4269-9602-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4269-9602-3">→ISBN</a></small>, page <span class="None" lang="und">35</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">The coastal <b>Eʋes</b>, being mostly traders and fishermen, are found in almost every town in Ghana.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2014</b></span>, Dela Quampah, “Ghanaian Traditional Leadership Milieu and the Contextualization of Christianity”, in <cite>Good Pastors, Bad Pastors: Pentecostal Ministerial Ethics in Ghana</cite>, Eugene, Ore.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipf_and_Stock" class="extiw" title="w:Wipf and Stock">Wipf & Stock</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-62564-051-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-62564-051-2">→ISBN</a></small>, page <span class="None" lang="und">46</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Chris Abotchie undertakes an elaborate exploration of the various mechanisms for social control among the southern <b>Eʋes</b> by isolating the relevant factors of lineage identity, rites of passage, traditional leadership, and what he calls the “magico-religious mechanism.” Abotchie’s magico-religious category emphasizes that the <b>Eʋes</b> hold criminal acts as offensive to the gods, who consequently engage supernatural forces to regulate human behavior in the community.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2014</b></span>, Dorothy BEA Akoto-Abutiate, “The Eʋe-Speaking Peoples”, in <cite>Proverbs and the African Tree of Life: Grafting Biblical Proverbs on to Ghanaian Eʋe Folk Proverbs</cite>, Leiden, S.H., Boston, Mass.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brill_Publishers" class="extiw" title="w:Brill Publishers">Brill</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-27440-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-27440-2">→ISBN</a></small>, page <span class="None" lang="und">31</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">These regions are occupied by three main migrant groups - the Northern <b>Eʋes</b>, Central <b>Eʋes</b> and the Southern <b>Eʋes</b>, respectively.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2020</b></span>, Ebenezer Yaw Blasu, “Glossary”, in <cite>African Theocology: Studies in African Religious Creation Care</cite>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipf_and_Stock" class="extiw" title="w:Wipf and Stock">Wipf & Stock</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-5326-8361-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-5326-8361-9">→ISBN</a></small>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">For her this explains why the <b>Eʋe</b> call a human shadow cast on a surface <i>luʋᴐ</i>, while that of other solid objects is differently described as <i>vᴐvᴐli</i>.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2022</b></span>, Fernando Palacios Mateos, editor, <cite>Comprendiendo/Understanding América</cite>, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifical_Catholic_University_of_Ecuador" class="extiw" title="w:Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador">Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador</a>], <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-9978-77-613-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-9978-77-613-1">→ISBN</a></small>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en"><b>Eʋes</b>, in general, are found in the Volta Region of Ghana and some parts of Togo, Benin and Nigeria. <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"> </span> Although the <b>Eʋe</b> migrated from Yorubaland in Nigeria almost six centuries ago, they still possess a few Yoruba cultural elements, some of which are exhibited in their music and dance forms. <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"> </span> However, Galoeta (1985) writing on drum making among the southern <b>Eʋes</b> of Ghana and Togo, notes that <i>Akpese</i> musical instruments consists of two Congas and the “patange” (pati) drum (a small two-sided drum play with a thin stick), added to bells and rattles. <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"> </span> In this chapter, we have recounted its history, placing it in the socio-cultural lives of the <b>Eʋe</b> of Ghana and some African on the diaspora communities.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Proper_noun">Proper noun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E%CA%8Be&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Proper noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">Eʋe</strong></span> </p> <ol><li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention">Alternative form of <span class="form-of-definition-link"><i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Ewe#English" title="Ewe">Ewe</a></i></span></span>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1971</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Ansre" class="extiw" title="w:Gilbert Ansre">Gilbert Ansre</a>, “Language Standardisation in Sub-Saharan Africa”, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sebeok" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Sebeok">Thomas A[lbert] Sebeok</a>, editor, <cite>Current Trends in Linguistics</cite>, volume 7 (Linguistics in Sub-Saharan Africa), The Hague, Paris: Mouton, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lccn.loc.gov/64003663">→LCCN</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/currenttrendsinl0007sebe/page/688/mode/1up">page <span class="None" lang="und">688</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Today standard <b>Eʋe</b> is the variety that is used in educational and religious literature.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2011</b></span>, <span class="None" lang="und">D. N. A.</span>, <cite>Hey, You Better Know Before You Go!</cite>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafford_Publishing" class="extiw" title="w:Trafford Publishing">Trafford Publishing</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4269-9602-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4269-9602-3">→ISBN</a></small>, page <span class="None" lang="und">35</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en"><b>Eʋe</b> is spoken in the Volta Region of Ghana, Benin, Togo, Nigeria and by nationals residing in the diaspora.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2014</b></span>, Dorothy BEA Akoto-Abutiate, “The Eʋe-Speaking Peoples”, in <cite>Proverbs and the African Tree of Life: Grafting Biblical Proverbs on to Ghanaian Eʋe Folk Proverbs</cite>, Leiden, S.H., Boston, Mass.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brill_Publishers" class="extiw" title="w:Brill Publishers">Brill</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-27440-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-27440-2">→ISBN</a></small>, page <span class="None" lang="und">31</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">The language and culture of these groups of <b>Eʋe</b>-speaking peoples differ from each other only slightly.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2017</b></span>, David C. K. Tay, “<span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>Bremen Mission Society and E. P. Church: 1847-1955<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span> Berlin Conference”, in <cite>Mawuli School: The Early Years</cite>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friesens" class="extiw" title="w:Friesens">FriesenPress</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4602-9799-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4602-9799-5">→ISBN</a></small>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Bernhard Schlegel, the first missionary to study <b>Eʋe</b> systematically, after considerable research, reached the decision that the standardized <b>Eʋe</b> be based on the coastal Aŋlɔ dialect.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2019</b></span>, Katharine Alexandra Collier Skinner, Wilson Yayoh, editors, <cite>Writing the New Nation in a West African Borderland: Ablɔɖe Safui (the Key to Freedom) by Holiday Komedja</cite>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780197266526" title="Special:BookSources/9780197266526">→ISBN</a></small>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Ablɔɖe was initiated and sustained by a shoemaker named Holiday V. K. Komedja, and written almost entirely in his mother-tongue, <b>Eʋe</b>.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2020</b></span>, Ebenezer Yaw Blasu, “Glossary”, in <cite>African Theocology: Studies in African Religious Creation Care</cite>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipf_and_Stock" class="extiw" title="w:Wipf and Stock">Wipf & Stock</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-5326-8361-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-5326-8361-9">→ISBN</a></small>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en"><span style="font-variant:small-caps;">The <b>Eʋe</b> used in</span> this study predominantly reflects the <b>Eʋe</b> spoken by the Tᴐŋu districts of Southern Volta Region of Ghana.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2020</b></span>, Takako Mino, Prince Paa-Kwesi Heto, “Educating Humans”, in <cite>Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education</cite>, volume 9, number SI, <small><span class="neverexpand"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.32674%2Fjise.v9iSI.1814">→DOI</a></span></small>, page <span class="None" lang="und">41</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">The Eʋe people, spread across West Africa, use the phrase “<i>amenyenye gborbor eno zi deme</i>” (<b>Eʋe</b>: the spirit of becoming human has settled in him/her) to describe someone who has become truly human.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Adjective">Adjective</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E%CA%8Be&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Adjective"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">Eʋe</strong> (<i>not <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#comparable" title="Appendix:Glossary">comparable</a></i>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention">Alternative form of <span class="form-of-definition-link"><i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Ewe#English" title="Ewe">Ewe</a></i></span></span>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2014</b></span>, Dela Quampah, “Issues in Pentecostal Ministerial Ethics in Ghana”, in <cite>Good Pastors, Bad Pastors: Pentecostal Ministerial Ethics in Ghana</cite>, Eugene, Ore.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipf_and_Stock" class="extiw" title="w:Wipf and Stock">Wipf & Stock</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-62564-051-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-62564-051-2">→ISBN</a></small>, page <span class="None" lang="und">141</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">From the <b>Eʋe</b> context, Dawubo Gavɔ, the priest in charge of Anyigbatɔ Shrine in Denu, Ghana, explains that a prospective priesthood candidate is normally observed for six months before admission, then trained for a further three years.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2014</b></span>, Dorothy BEA Akoto-Abutiate, “The Eʋe-Speaking Peoples”, in <cite>Proverbs and the African Tree of Life: Grafting Biblical Proverbs on to Ghanaian Eʋe Folk Proverbs</cite>, Leiden, S.H., Boston, Mass.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brill_Publishers" class="extiw" title="w:Brill Publishers">Brill</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-27440-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-27440-2">→ISBN</a></small>, page <span class="None" lang="und">31</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Several values or virtues can be associated with <b>Eʋe</b> folk proverbs, which this book considers as the African tree of life, on to which ‘shoots’ of the biblical tree of life in Proverbs 25:1–29:27 can be ‘grafted’.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2017</b></span>, David C. K. Tay, “<span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>Bremen Mission Society and E. P. Church: 1847-1955<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span> Post Asante War Growth”, in <cite>Mawuli School: The Early Years</cite>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friesens" class="extiw" title="w:Friesens">FriesenPress</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4602-9799-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4602-9799-5">→ISBN</a></small>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">After the Asante War ended in 1874, a number of the <b>Eʋe</b> refugees returned home to put into practice what they had learned.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2018</b></span>, Elvis Yevudey, “The representation of African languages and cultures on social media: a case of Ewe in Ghana”, in Augustine Agwuele, Adams Bodomo, editors, <cite>The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics</cite>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routledge" class="extiw" title="w:Routledge">Routledge</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-138-22829-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-138-22829-0">→ISBN</a></small>, part IV (Language and society: theory and practice):</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">For instance, the aim of the <i><b>Eʋe</b> & Proud</i>-focused group is to translate Ewe names into English.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2019</b></span>, Ebenezer Yaw Blasu, “The Bible and Caring for the Land: African Thecology as Christian Impulsion for Creation Care”, in Benjamin Abotchie Ntreh, Mark S. Aidoo, Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh, editors, <cite>Essays on the Land, Ecotheology, and Traditions in Africa</cite>, Eugene, Ore.: Resource Publications, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-5326-8201-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-5326-8201-8">→ISBN</a></small>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Birgit Meyer observes among the Peki-Eʋe in Ghana that the pietistic salvation message of the Norddeutsche Missionsgesellschaft (NMG) did not only “demonise” the “<b>Eʋe</b> gods and spirits,” but also drew a “boundary between Christianity and <b>Eʋe</b> religion,” and, hence, ecocultural self-understanding.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2020</b></span>, Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey, “Feminist Parenting: A Memoir in Motion”, in Rama Salla Dieng an Andrea O’Reilly, editors, <cite>Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond</cite>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demeter_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Demeter Press">Demeter Press</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781772582284" title="Special:BookSources/9781772582284">→ISBN</a></small>, part I (Feminist Mothering Journeys):</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">In the <b>Eʋe</b> tradition, barring any medical complications, a child is to be named on the seventh or the eighth day after birth by the child's father or male relation of the father, if the latter is not physically present.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2020</b></span>, Takako Mino, Prince Paa-Kwesi Heto, “Educating Humans”, in <cite>Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education</cite>, volume 9, number SI, <small><span class="neverexpand"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.32674%2Fjise.v9iSI.1814">→DOI</a></span></small>, page <span class="None" lang="und">41</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">The <b>Eʋe</b> people, spread across West Africa, use the phrase “<i>amenyenye gborbor eno zi deme</i>” (Eʋe: the spirit of becoming human has settled in him/her) to describe someone who has become truly human.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2022</b></span>, Fernando Palacios Mateos, editor, <cite>Comprendiendo/Understanding América</cite>, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifical_Catholic_University_of_Ecuador" class="extiw" title="w:Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador">Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador</a>], <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-9978-77-613-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-9978-77-613-1">→ISBN</a></small>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Its popularity among the <b>Eʋe</b> communities and other ethnic groups in Ghana and beyond has been extraordinary.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ewe">Ewe</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=E%CA%8Be&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Ewe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r82267123">.mw-parser-output .maintenance-box{width:90%;margin:0.75em auto;border-width:1px;border-style:dashed;padding:0.25em}.mw-parser-output .request-box{width:90%;margin:0.75em auto;border:1px dashed var(--border-color-base,#999999);padding:0.25em;background:var(--background-color-base,#FFFFFF)}body.skin-minerva 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