Siwu

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Siwu is a Niger-Congo language spoken in the mountainous central Volta Region of Ghana. It has traditionally been grouped with some thirteen other typologically similar languages under the heading Ghana-Togo Mountain languages. Siwu is spoken by the Mawu people in Kawu. They number about 10,000—15,000 in a total of eight villages scattered about in the mountains north of Hohoe. Surrounding peoples use the term Akpafu for the language, the people, and their land.

Visual corpus linguistics with Many Eyes [20080614]

Migration stories [2008041]

Fieldwork snippet: What ideophones do [20080229]

Fieldwork snippet: What is the difference between these words? [20080222]

Pfisterer on Akpafu, 1904 (part II) [20080130]

Pfisterer on Akpafu, 1904 (part I) [20080128]

Remnants of some ancient tribal idiom: deciphering the oldest Siwu to appear in print [20080117]

Gender-based folk etymologies for the name Akpafu [20071125]

Introducing Siwu [20071122]

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Akpafu-Todzi, June 2007 Damit war auch die Frage nach einem passenden Ort für die Haupt-Station gelöst. Das schön, frei und gesund und doch nicht allzu hoch gelegene Akpafu, die zweitgrößte Stadt in Boem, war der geeignete Ort.

Andreas Pfisterer, 1904, on the place where I do fieldwork.