The Ewe people are a patrilineal people who live in towns, cities and villages that contain lineages. Each lineage is headed by the male elder. The male ancestors of Ewe are revered, and traditionally, families can trace male ancestors. The land owned by an Ewe family is considered an ancestral gift, and they do not sell this gift in any way. [7]

An adult female is referred to as a ewe (/ j uː / yoo), an intact male as a ram, occasionally a tup, a castrated male as a wether, and a young sheep as a lamb. Sheep are most likely descended from the wild mouflon of Europe and Asia, with Iran being a geographic envelope of …

Ewe, peoples living in southeastern Ghana, southern Benin, and the southern half of Togo who speak various dialects of Ewe, a language of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family. Ewe unity is based on language and common traditions of …

The Ewe people are a West African ethnic group. The largest population of Ewe people is in Ghana (3.3 million), and the second largest population in Togo (2 million). They speak the Ewe language which belongs to the Niger-Congo Gbe family of languages.

2018年5月11日 · FAMILY LIFE. The Ewe people follow the patrilineal system of tracing descent. Members of a clan can trace their descent to a male ancestor. Furthermore, clans can be divided into lineages that are branches in which individuals …

According to linguists (and also Westermann and Bryan, 1952), the Ewe language (Ewegbe) belongs to a member of the Kwa family of sudanic languages. As stated by Greenberg (1970), Kwa languages constitute a sub-family of the Niger-Congo family of the Congo-Kordofanian language family of Africa.

The Ewe people are an ethnic group mainly located in southeastern Ghana, southern Togo, and southwestern Benin. The language they speak is also known as Ewe language. The Ewe people have a rich culture that includes music, dance, festivals, and traditional religion.

2025年1月5日 · The Ewe people are an ethnic group in the western part of the African continent. They are peoples living in southeastern Ghana, southern Benin, and the southern half of Togo who speak various dialects of Ewe, a language of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family. Ewe languages are in relation to the Fon, Gen, Phera, and the Aja group of Benin.

There are Ewe communities outside this area in Ghana and elsewhere in West Africa as well as in Europe and America. Family: Kwa branch of the Niger Congo family. Related Languages: Ewe is, in fact, a major dialect cluster of the language cluster that has come to be known as Gbe or Tadoid (Capo 1991).

2017年12月27日 · The Ewe people have a great sense of family, and the families remain very close throughout their lives. The founder of each Ewe community is the chief, and he is succeeded by his sons or his male relatives when he dies; this type of community is called a ‘patrilineal community’.