[PDF] The Languages Of Ghana eBook

Author : Mary E. Kropp Dakubu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317406044

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First published in 1988, this book provides an easily accessible handbook of knowledge about the languages of Ghana; their geographical distribution, their relationships with each other, the social patterns of their use, and their structures. Besides the general introduction, it contains chapters on each of the individually recognised families of languages spoken in Ghana: Gur, Volta-Comoé, Gbe, Ga-Dangme, Central-Tongo and Mande. An additional chapter outlines the use of non-indigenous languages in the country.

Author : Mary E. Kropp Dakubu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317406036

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First published in 1988, this book provides an easily accessible handbook of knowledge about the languages of Ghana; their geographical distribution, their relationships with each other, the social patterns of their use, and their structures. Besides the general introduction, it contains chapters on each of the individually recognised families of languages spoken in Ghana: Gur, Volta-Comoé, Gbe, Ga-Dangme, Central-Tongo and Mande. An additional chapter outlines the use of non-indigenous languages in the country.

Author : Kropp-Dakubu,
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1136881018

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First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Mary E. Kropp Dakubu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 2016-12-08
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ISBN : 9781138926219

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First published in 1988, this book provides an easily accessible handbook of knowledge about the languages of Ghana; their geographical distribution, their relationships with each other, the social patterns of their use, and their structures. Besides the general introduction, it contains chapters on each of the individually recognised families of languages spoken in Ghana: Gur, Volta-Comoe, Gbe, Ga-Dangme, Central-Tongo and Mande. An additional chapter outlines the use of non-indigenous languages in the country. "

Author : Adams Bodomo
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Twi language
ISBN : 9781575866048

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Let's Speak Twi is an introductory textbook for those seeking proficiency in Akan/Twi, the most widely used and understood native language of Ghana. This book is a systematic introduction to Akan and Ghanaian culture through the language learning process. Included are exercises and activities that require active participation on the part of the learner. The book also serves as a useful companion for academics and others embarking on field-trips to Ghana and neighboring countries where Twi is spoken.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 1349623377

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Although African ethnicity has become a highly fertile field of enquiry in recent years, most of the research is concentrated on southern and central Africa, and has passed Ghana by. This volume extends many of the distilled insights, but also modifies them in the light of the Ghanaian evidence. The collection is multidisciplinary in scope and spans the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial contexts. A central contention of the volume is that, while there were significant regional variations, ethnicity was not purely a colonial `invention'. The boundaries of `we-groups' have constantly mutated from pre-colonial times, while European categorization owed much to indigenous ways of seeing. The contributors explore the role of European administrators and recruitment officers as well as African cultural brokers in shaping new identities. The interaction of gender and ethnic consciousness is explicitly addressed. The volume also examines the formulation of the national question in Ghana today - in debates over language policy and conflicts over land and chieftaincy.

Author : Magnus Huber
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 21,4 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027248826

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This first published full-scale study of the Ghanaian variety of West African Pidgin English (GhaPE) makes extensive use of hitherto neglected historical material and provides a synchronic account of GhaPE's structure and sociolinguistics. Special focus is on the differences between GhaPE and other West African Pidgins, in particular the development of, and interrelations between, the different varieties of restructured English in West Africa, from Sierra Leone to Cameroon. This monograph further includes an overview of the history of Afro-European contact languages in Lower Guinea with special emphasis on the Gold Coast; an outline of the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone, with a description of how and when the transplantation of Sierra Leonean Krio to other West African countries took place; an analysis of the linguistic evidence for the origin, development, and spread of restructured Englishes on the Lower Guinea Coast; an account of the different varieties of GhaPE and their sociolinguistic status in the contemporary linguistic ecology of Ghana; as well as a comprehensive structural description of the “uneducated” variety of GhaPE. The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM which contains illustrative material such as spoken GhaPE and photographs.