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The Kwa languages are spoken in the south-eastern part of Côte d'Ivoire, in Ghana, Togo and Benin, and the south-Western corner of Nigeria. The term was introduced 1885 by Krause and used by Westermann (1952) and Greenberg (1963). According to Westermann (1952), the term Kwa is derived form the word for 'people' in many of these languages, which contains the root kwa.The term Kwa is sometimes deemed as incorrect today, since present analysis does not consider Kwa in its original form to be a genetic unit. Yoruba and Igbo are placed in the Benue-Congo subfamily en the remaining languages are labeled New Kwa in order to avoid confusion with the old, larger Kwa family.
1 Kwa languages
The following languages belong to this group:
2 See also
3 Sources
- Westermann, Diedrich Hermann ( 1952) Languages of West Africa (Part II). LondonLondon is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and with over seven million inhabitants in the Greater London area, is the second-most populous conurbation in Europe (after Moscow). From being Londinium the capital of the Roman province of Bri/ New YorkNew York is a state in the northeastern United States whose U. postal abbreviation is NY . It is sometimes called New York State when there is need to distinguish it from New York City. History See: History of New York New York was one of the thirteen col/ Toronto: Oxford University PressOxford University Press OUP is a highly-respected publishing house and a department of the University of Oxford in England. It was chartered as one of the two privileged presses in 1634. OUP" publishes many reference, professional, and academic works incl.
*The Kwa languages are spoken in the south-eastern part of Cote d'Ivoire, in Ghana, Togo and Benin, and the south-Western corner of Nigeria. The term was introduced 1885 by Krause and used by Westermann (1952) and Greenberg (1963). According to Westermann
