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Kposo language, or Ikposo ('), is the language of the
Akposso people The Kposo or Akposso people ( kpo, Akpɔsɔ) are an ethnic group living in the Plateau Region of southern Togo, west of Atakpamé, and across the border in Ghana. Their ethnic language is Kposo or Ikposo. Economy Akposso farmers grow cocoa an ...
, mainly in the Plateau Region of
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 c ...
, west of Atakpamé, but also into 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 the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...
. 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 ...
, but does not have the system of noun classes that is characteristic of other languages in the group.M.E.Kropp Dakubu, ''The Languages of Ghana'', Kegan Paul International, 1988.


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