Likpe language

Likpe
Likpe
Person	Ɔkpεlé
People	Bakpεlé
Language	Sεkpεlé

Likpe
Likpe
Sekpele
Sεkpεlé
Native to	Ghana
Region	Oti Region, north of Hohoe
Native speakers	23,000 (2003)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Kwa Na-Togo Lelemi Likpe; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lip
Glottolog	sekp1241
ELP	Sekpele

Likpe or Sekpele (also Bosele, Mu) is spoken in the mountainous lower part of the Oti Region of Ghana. It belongs to the geographic group of Ghana–Togo Mountain languages (traditionally called the Togorestsprachen or Togo Remnant languages) of the Kwa branch of Niger–Congo.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants^[2]
		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labial- velar	Glottal
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	tʃ	k	kp	ʔ
Plosive/ Affricate	voiced	b	d	dʒ	g	gb
Fricative		f	s	ʃ
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Approximant			l	j		w

/p/ and /g/ are rare.^[2]
Clusters include ⟨Cl⟩, ⟨Cw⟩, and ⟨Cy⟩.^[2]

Vowels

Oral vowels^[2]
	Front		Central	Back
	[-round]	[+round]	Central	Back
Close	i			u
Close-mid	e			o
Open-mid	ɛ	œ		ɔ
Open			a

Nasal vowels^[2]
	Front	Central	Back
Close	ĩ		ũ
Close-mid			õ
Open-mid			ɔ̃
Open		ã

Tones

Likpe has three tones: high, low, and mid.^[3]

Notes

↑ Likpe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
1 2 3 4 5 Allen 1980, p. LIK 5.
↑ Allen 1980, p. LIK 1.

References

Allen, Edward Jay (1980). "Likpe". In Kropp Dakubu, M. E. (ed.). West African Language Data Sheets. Vol. 2. West African Linguistic Society. pp. LIK 1-LIK 6.

External links

ELAR archive of Description and Documentation of Sekpele

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[e18-1] Likpe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[FOOTNOTEAllen1980LIK_5-2] 1 2 3 4 5 Allen 1980, p. LIK 5.

[FOOTNOTEAllen1980LIK_1-3] Allen 1980, p. LIK 1.

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