The Adele language is spoken in central eastern
Ghana
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in Ghana–Ivory Coast border, the west, Burkina ...
and central western
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 ...
. It belongs to the geographic group of
Ghana Togo Mountain languages (traditionally called the ''Togorestsprachen'' or Togo Remnant languages) of the
Kwa branch of
Niger–Congo. The speakers themselves, the
Adele people
The Adele people are an ethnic group and tribe of the Ghanaian- Togo border area indigenous to the Jasikan, Nkwanta South and Nkwanta North Districts of the Volta Region centered around the towns of Dadiasi and Dutukpene in Ghana and the So ...
, call the language ''Gidire''.
Writing system
In Ghana, the Ghana Institute of Linguistics, Literacy and Bible Translation (en) (GILLBT) developed an alphabet to translate the Bible into Adele.
The Adele alphabet used in Togo is essentially the same, however Rongier uses fewer digraphs at the index of his Adele-French dictionary.
References
* ''
Bernd Heine, Die Verbreitung und Gliederung der Togorestsprachen.'' Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, 1968.
External links
Listen to a sample of Adele from Global Recordings Network
Ghana–Togo Mountain languages
Languages of Ghana
Languages of Togo
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