Likpe language

Likpe or Sekpele (also Bosele, Mu) is spoken in the mountainous lower part of the Oti Region of Ghana. It belongs to the geographic group of Ghana–Togo Mountain languages (traditionally called the Togorestsprachen or Togo Remnant languages) of the Kwa branch of Niger–Congo.

• /p/ and /g/ are rare.^[2]
• Clusters include ⟨Cl⟩, ⟨Cw⟩, and ⟨Cy⟩.^[2]

Likpe has three tones: high, low, and mid.^[3]

• 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.

• 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 (in German). Berlin: Reimer.
• Ladefoged, Peter (1964). A Phonetic Study of West African Languages. London: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 1801799.

• ELAR archive of Description and Documentation of Sekpele

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