The Nyangbo-Tafi language is spoken in the
Volta Region
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of
Ghana
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. It is considered one of the
Ghana–Togo Mountain languages
The Ghana–Togo Mountain languages, formerly called Togorestsprachen (''Togo Remnant languages'') and Central Togo languages, form a grouping of about fourteen languages spoken in the mountains of the Ghana–Togo borderland. They are part of t ...
of the
Kwa family.
It consists of two distinct varieties which ''
Ethnologue
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'' treats as separate languages, Nyangbo (''Tutrugbu'') and Tafi (''Tegbo''). The differences are reported to be only phonological but people without prior contact have only 67% intelligibility with the other variety.
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Languages of Ghana
Ghana–Togo Mountain languages
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