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Ifè

Ifè is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Togo and Benin.

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Ifẹ̀ (or Ifɛ) is a Yoruboid language spoken by some 271,000 ethnic Ana-Ife people in Togo, Benin and Ghana. It is also known as Ana, Ana-Ifé, Anago, Baate and Ede Ife. It has a lexical similarity of 87%–91% with Ede Nago.

In Togo, there are three major varieties based on the towns of Atakpame (Djama variant), the Dassa variant is spoken in Dadja town, and a third one is based in Kamina. In Benin, the language is based on the dialect of Tchetti.

Like all the other dialects of Yoruba, Ife has three tones; (High, Mid and Low). Many speakers of Ife are bilingual in Ewe in the south of Togo and Standardized Yoruba (SY) in the North.

From Wikipedia · Ifè language · CC BY-SA 4.0

Words in Ifè

MeaningWordRomanization
motherínà
childɔma
nameɛ́kɔ
boneekũkũ
treeegi
dogadzá
birdɛyɛ
horseatsĩ
snakeedzò
oneɔ̀kã
twoméèdzì
threemɛ́ɛta
fourmɛ́ɛrɛ̃
fivemɛ́ɛrú
tenmaá
eatdzɛ
houseilé
whitefũfũ

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