Language/Ewe/Pronunciation/Alphabet

Ewe is a language spoken by approximately 20 million people in West Africa, mainly in Ghana, Togo and Benin, and also in some other countries like

Liberia and southwestern Nigeria.

Phonology

Consonants

		Bilabial	Labio dental	Dental/ Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Labial- velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p		t			k	k͡p
	voiced	m ~ b		n ~ d	ɳ ~ ɖ		ŋ ~ ɡ	ɡ͡b
Affricate	voiceless			t͡s
	voiced			d͡z
Fricative	voiceless	ɸ	f	s			x
	voiced	β	v	z			ɣ ~ ɰ ~ w		ʁ ~ ʕ ~ ɦ
Trill				r
Approximant				l ~ l̃		ɲ ~ j
Tap				(ɾ ~ ɾ̃)

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i, ĩ		u, ũ
Close-mid	e, ẽ	ə, ə̃	o õ
Open-mid	ɛ, ɛ̃		ɔ, ɔ̃
Open		a, ã

Orthography

The African Reference Alphabet is used.

A a	B b	D d	Ɖ ɖ	Dz dz	E e	Ɛ ɛ	F f	Ƒ ƒ	G g	Gb gb	Ɣ ɣ
/a/	/b/	/d/	/ɖ/	/d͡z/	/e/, /ə/	/ɛ/	/f/	/ɸ/	/ɡ/	/ɡ͡b/	/ɣ/
H h	I i	K k	Kp kp	L l	M m	N n	Ny ny	Ŋ ŋ	O o	Ɔ ɔ	P p
/h/	/i/	/k/	/k͡p/	/l/	/m/	/n/	/ɲ/	/ŋ/	/o/	/ɔ/	/p/
R r	S s	T t	Ts ts	U u	V v	Ʋ ʋ	W w	X x	Y y	Z z
/r/	/s/	/t/	/t͡s/	/u/	/v/	/β/	/w/	/x/	/j/	/z/