Likpe Kɔkɔre

Likpe kɔkɔre

kɔkɔre, modern language

Aŋa yitaalombile	Likpe-Santrokofi
Paaloŋ	Ghana
Indigenous to	Volta Region
Ethnologue language status	5 Developing

Likpe bee Sekpele (meŋ naŋ e Bosele, Mu) taa la yeluu ko a tanseɛŋ deme naŋ be a Oti Region of Ghana. O taa la soobo ko a Ghana–Togo Mountain languages (saakonnoŋ poɔ ka ba boɔlɔ Togorestsprachen bee Togo Remnant kɔkɔre) ko a Kwa branch of Niger–Congo.

Sɛgebie ane Voonebie

Voonebidaare

Voonebidaare

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labial- velar	Glottal
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	tʃ	k	kp	ʔ
	voiced	b	d	dʒ	g	gb
Fricative		f	s	ʃ
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Approximant			l	j		w

• /p/ ane /g/ are rare.
• Clusters include ⟨Cl⟩, ⟨Cw⟩, and ⟨Cy⟩.

Voonebidaare

Noɔre voonebinyaŋene

	Front		Central	Back
	[-round]	[+round]
pɔge	i			u
pɔge kyɛlee	e			o
Yuo kyɛlee	ɛ	œ		ɔ
yuo			a

Nyɔ-ɛremɛ voonebinyaŋene

	Niŋe	Soga	Puori
Pɔge	ĩ		ũ
Pɔge kyɛlee			õ
Yuo kyɛlee			ɔ̃
Yuo		ã

Kɔkɔgaale

Likpe taa la kɔkɔgaale parɛɛ ata: duoruu, sigiruu, ane puli.

Kyɛlle kyɛ meŋ

• Allen, Edward Jay (1980). "Likpe". In Kropp Dakubu, M. E. (ed.). West African Language Data Sheets. Vol. 2. West African Linguistic Society. pp. LIK 1-LIK 6.Likpe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
• Allen 1980, p. LIK 5.
• Allen 1980, p. LIK 1.

Nimitɔɔre karemo

• Ford, Kevin C. (1973). "On the loss of cross-height vowel harmony". Research Review (Institute of African Studies, Legon, Ghana). Supplement 4.
• Heine, Bernd (1968). Verbreitung und Gliederung der Togo-Restsprachen. Berlin: Reimer.
• Ladefoged, Peter (1964). A Phonetic Study of West African Languages. London: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 1801799.

Ziiri mine liŋkiri

• ELAR archive of Description and Documentation of Sekpe