Saturday, December 7, 2013

Languages of Togo

Togo is about the size of West Virginia, but there are 36 languages spoken here. All these people with different local ethnolinguistic backgrounds communicate with each other in French. The main languages around Lomé is Ewe (900,000 speakers), and the main language in the north is Kabiyé (700,000 speakers). Some of the other languages that have >100,000 speakers include: Gbe-Waci, Gen, Gourmanchéma, Ifé, Ikposo, Moba, Nawdm, Nitcham, & Tem.