Anlo Ewe
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The Anlo Ewe form a subdivision of the Ewe people living on the coast of Ghana between the mouth of Volta River and the border of Togo. Their language (self-name Anlogbe) is a dialect of the Ewe language, itself part of the Gbe language cluster.
Newborn Anlo Ewe boys are circumcised on the seventh day after their birth. They are also named on this day. Newborn Anlo Ewe girls have their ears pieced on the seventh day after their births. They are named on that day. [citation needed]
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- ↑ Anlo is known for a peculiarity of its tonal system. Like neighbouring Ewe varieties, Anlo has three tone levels, High (H), Mid (M), and Low (L). Of these three levels, the lower two are not phonemically contrastive. However, Anlo contrasts with the other dialect in the possession of a fourth tone level, the extra-High tone (R). The R tone is viewed as an innovation of Anlo, since the most economic way of generalising about the R tone is to apply 'R tone rules' to the common tonal forms to derive the Anlo tonal forms. Clements (1977) argues that the R tone is a case of tonal split caused by 'reanalysis of downstepped tone sequences as sequences of tones on distinct tone levels' (p 168).
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- Clements, George N. (1977) 'Four tones from three: the extra-high tone in Anlo Ewe'. In Kotey and Der-Houssikian (eds.) Language and linguistic problems in Africa. South Carolina: Hornbeam Press Inc.
- Clements, George N. (1985) 'Downdrift in a tone language with four tone levels'. In York Papers in Linguistics 15, July, pp. 33-40
- Geurts, Kathryn (2003) Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community. Santa Barbara: University of California Press.
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