Ewe in Togo

Speakers

1,324,022

Type

Location

Ewe in Togo

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Ewe in Togo

Size

1,324,022

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
Yes
Indigenous language
No

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
L'Ewe, comme l'une des langues nationales, dispose d'un corpus étendu.
A titre d'illustration, on citera l'académie ewe ( Evegbe Akademi)

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Comments
Plein de films traduits en éwé sont disponibles sur Youtube.
Il y a des vidéos sur la vie du Christ en général et sur sa passion en particulier.

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Comments
Même le Dictionnaire Ewe-Français est disponible
Catégorie: Grammaire en éwé ayant pour but de réunir les sous-catégories traitant de la grammaire en éwé, notamment :
les natures de mots (nom, verbe…)
les formes (locutions, sigles…)
les formes infléchies, déclinées, conjuguées

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban

Size / Number of users

Number of users

1324022
Source
RGPH4
Year
2010

Users within total population

21.00000
Less than 50% use the language

PROPORTION

21
Source
statistiques linguistiques au Togo : Année (2014)
Year
2014

Users within the reference community

More than 50% use the language
Actual percentage
50
Year
2014

Age distribution of users

778,215
59
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

RGPH4, 2010

Age distribution of users

491,671
37
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

RGPH4, 2010

Age distribution of users

51,125
4
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

RGPH4, 2010

Generational use

All generations

Educational attainment

Primary education
Source

RGPH4, 2010

23,397
Early childhood education
Source

RGPH4, 2010

506,049
Primary education
Source

RGPH4, 2010

270,762
Lower secondary education
Source

RGPH4, 2010

100,536
Higher secondary education
Source

RGPH4, 2010

43,087
Primary education
Source

RGPH4, 2010

Primary education

Occupational qualifications

Elementary occupations
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
49
51
Craft and related trades workers
Source

https://ilostat.ilo.org/fr/these-occupations-are-dominated-by-women/

Comments

Ces profession sont dominées par les femmes

Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Services and sales workers
Clerical support workers
Technicians and associate professionals
Professionals
Managers

Language competence

Language not used
Understand little, speak/sign none
Understand some, speak/sign little
Understand well, speak/sign some
Understand all, speak/sign well
48
52
1,324,023
Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Literacy of users

Less than 50% of users with literacy in the language

Digital use

More than 50% digital users of the language

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
exclusive
Stability
Increasing
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal
Stability
Increasing
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
complementary
Stability
Increasing

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Ethnoculture

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion