Talk:Ewe language

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In linguistic literature, Ewe is designated Ewe, not Éwé. Native speakers of Ewe would also write just 'Ewe', following the common orthography which excludes most tones from appearing in writing. I think this article should adopt this way of writing. (Since I'm a newbie, I haven't figured out how to change the name of an article and I'm not aware of possible domino effects that might occur when I would do it. I'll confine myself for now to changing Éwé to Ewe inside the article)

strangeloop 10:46, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Oh well, I moved it anyhow, since I read that moving would not cause a domino effect. I've also changed the links from the pages that link to here.

strangeloop 10:49, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Writing system, status & official usage

On the writing system, I'm not sure it is accurate to say that any language "uses the African Reerence Alphabet" as the latter was just a guideline based on usage. In the case of Ewe, its use of various extended Latin characters was established well before 1979 when I first encountered the language in Togo; the ARA was adopted in 1978.

On Status, I thought it would be helpful to have a heading under which to mention legal status of the language as well as use in education, press, etc. Consider it a stub section - modification of the heading category to something better is invited. --A12n 17:36, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ewe language template

If you are a native speaker of Ewe then you can help translate this template into your own language:

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This user is a native speaker of Eʋegbe.

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--Amazonien (talk) 21:37, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Native name

The native name seems to be Eʋegbe rather than Ɛ̀ʋɛ̀gbè, see Ewe Wikipedia, French Wikipedia and Basic Ewe for foreign students (Institut für Afrikanistik der Universität zu Köln, p. 206).--Nil Blau (talk) 23:40, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]