Overview
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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

23,400

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Community Members

    No members

Revitalization Programs

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Language Information By Source

Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

23,400

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

Some

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Ghana

Coordinates

7.173113, 0.472206

Location description

Southeast, north of Hohoe.

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

Southeast, north of Hohoe.

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Akan, Ewe

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

Some also use Akan [aka], or Éwé [ewe].

Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

~25,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

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Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2011

Location and Context

Countries

Upper Volta region, Ghana

Coordinates

No data

Location description

"Spoken primarily by ten Likpe communities north-east of Hohoe (the district capital which is an Ewe community) in the central Volta Region of Ghana"

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers’s attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

"Spoken primarily by ten Likpe communities north-east of Hohoe (the district capital which is an Ewe community) in the central Volta Region of Ghana"

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

~15,000

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

"The names Sekwa and Sekpele refer to dialects of the same language for the approximately 15,000 ethnic Likpe."

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Africa

Coordinates

No data

Location description

"...spoken in southeastern Ghana."

Government support

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Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

"...spoken in southeastern Ghana."

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Sekwa, Sekpele, Ewe

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

"It is losing ground in favour of the dominant language in the area, Ewe, which is becoming more and more of a primary language for the Likpe people."

Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

23,400

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

No data

Year of info

Location and Context

Countries

Ghana

Coordinates

No data

Location description

Volta Region, north of Hohoe

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers’s attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

Volta Region, north of Hohoe

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

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Domains of other languages

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More on context

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
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    http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=280
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