Togo Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its ...

is a

multilingual Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. More than half of all Eu ...

country, which according to one count has 44 languages spoken.Ethnologue, "Languages of Togo"
(accessed Oct. 31, 2010) The official language is French. In 1975, the government designated two indigenous languages - Ewé ( ee, Èʋegbe) and Kabiyé - as

national language A national language is a language (or language variant, e.g. dialect) that has some connection—de facto or de jure—with a nation. There is little consistency in the use of this term. One or more languages spoken as first languages in the te ...

s, meaning that they are promoted in formal education and the media. The two national languages tend to be used regionally with Ewé used in the south from

Lomé Lomé is the capital and largest city of Togo. It has an urban population of 837,437

to Blitta, and Kabiyé from Blitta to

Dapaong Dapaong (also known as Dapaongo or Dapango) is a city in northern Togo and prefecture seat of Tône in the Savanes Region, of which it is also the capital. It had a population of 58,071 at the 2010 Census. It is situated 638 km north of th ...

in the north. Togo joined the

Commonwealth A commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good. Historically, it has been synonymous with "republic". The noun "commonwealth", meaning "public welfare, general good or advantage", dates from the ...

in June 2022. Prior to its admission at the

2022 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting The 2022 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, also known as CHOGM 2022, was the 26th Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations. The meeting was originally scheduled for 26–27 June 2020 in Kigali, Rwanda preceded by v ...

, Foreign Minister Robert Dussey said that he expected Commonwealth membership to provide opportunities for Togolese citizens to learn

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

and access new educational and cultural resources. He also remarked that the country sought "to forge closer ties with the anglophone world."

References

* ''Le français au Togo: une aventure ambigüe'', Isabelle Anzorge, Université Nice, 1998.

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