Ikposo

Language name and location: Ikposo-uwi, Togo, Ghana [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 伊克波索语, 多哥共和国中西部高原地区和加纳境内

1. ɛ̀dɪ	21. ílʲéfʷənɛ̀dɪ
2. ɛ̀fʷà	22. ílʲéfʷənɛ̀fʷà
3. ɛ̀la	23. ílʲéfʷənɛ̀la
4. ɛ̀na	24. ílʲéfʷənɛ̀na
5. ɛ̀tʊ	25. ílʲéfʷənɛ̀tʊ
6. ɛ̀wlʊ	26. ílʲéfʷənɛ̀wlʊ
7. ɛ̀wlʊdɪ (6+1) ?	27. ílʲéfʷənɛ̀wlʊdɪ
8. ɛ̀lɛ	28. ílʲéfʷənɛ̀lɛ
9. ɛ̀lɛdɪ (8+1) ?	29. ílʲéfʷənɛ̀lɛdɪ
10. ìd͡ʒo	30. ílʲélə
11. ìd͡ʒonɛ̀dɪ	40. ílʲénə̄
12. ìd͡ʒonɛ̀fʷà	50. ílʲɛ́tʊ
13. ìd͡ʒonɛ̀la	60. ílʲɛ́wlʊ̄
14. ìd͡ʒonɛ̀na	70. ílʲɛ́wlʊdɪ
15. ìd͡ʒonɛ̀tʊ	80. ílʲélɛ̄
16. ìd͡ʒonɛ̀wlʊ	90. ílʲélɛ̀dɪ̄
17. ìd͡ʒonɛ̀wlʊdɪ	100. ɡ͡bɔ̀wa or [àlàfá] (< Ewe) *
18. ìd͡ʒonɛ̀lɛ	200. ɡ͡bɔ̀wɛfʷà
19. ìd͡ʒonɛ̀lɛdɪ	1000. àk͡pédiɡ͡bó (< Ewe)
20. ílʲéfʷə̂	2000. àk͡pɛ́fʷâ

Linguist providing data and dateː Mrs. Jenny Rowe, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Togo-Benin, March 25, 1999. Ms. Coleen G. A. Starwalt, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Togo-Benin, July 26, 2008.

提供资料的语言学家: Mrs. Jenny Rowe, 1999 年 3 月 25 日. Ms. Coleen G. A. Starwalt, 2008 年 7 月 26 日.

Other comments: Ikposo has a decimal system with special construction for numbers 7 and 9, hundred and thousand are loanwords from the Ewe language. Kposo-uwi also has a number for zero [àk͡pa]. Also, while Ikposo-uwi uses [ɡbɔ̀wa] for 100, they also use [àlàfá] in the counting of money such that 100 F becomes [àlàfédiɡ͡bó]. Notesː

1. [ʃ] and [ʒ] occur only before [ɥ]. All the rest of the sounds are contrastive. /h/ is
very limited. /p/ also is limited, but is considered native. /r/ occurs in borrowings
and is a result of a process of Cili à Cli à Cri. It is used in the orthography.

2. Also that the consonantal inventory of Ikposo-uwi differs in some substantial ways
    from Ikposo-Litime. There is no voiced retroflex stop, no labial-velar nasal, no
    alveolar affricates. There is in addition, a velar approximant (unrounded) that
    systematically occurs where Litime has a labial-velar nasal.

3. Ikposo-uwi has 10 contrastive vowels and no nasalized vowels. The 10^th vowel,
    /ə / does not occur in Litime and Amou-Oblo dialects. Ikposo has dominant
    [+ATR] harmony, but the 10^th vowel occurs only in root position, invoking
    harmony, but is itself not the harmonic counterpart of /a/. See Anderson 1999 in
    SAL for further detail.

4. there are five surface tones notes above: H [v́], M Ø, Lowered Mid [v̄], L [v̀] and

High Falling [v̂].

Ikposo or Kposo is spoken by approximately 230,000 speakers in Plateaux region: Amou, Ogou, and Wawa prefectures, mostly Amlamé, Amou-Oblo, and Atakpamé, Togo as well as Ghana.

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