Siwu language

Not to be confused with Siwi language.
Siwu
Siwusi
Native toGhana
RegionVolta Region, north of Hohoe
Native speakers
27,000 (2003)[1]
Dialects
  • Akpafu
  • Lolobi
Language codes
ISO 639-3akp
Glottologsiwu1238
PeopleMawu
LanguageSiwu
CountryKawu

Siwu is a language that is spoken in the mountainous central part of the Volta 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. The speakers of Siwu call themselves the Mawu and their land Kawu. Some of the speakers of Siwu lives around Lolobi communities.[2]

  1. ^ Siwu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Codjoe, S N (2007-06-12). "Population growth and deforestation in the Volta River basin of Ghana, 1960-2010. Intergration of satellite survey and census data". Research Review of the Institute of African Studies. 22 (2). doi:10.4314/rrias.v22i2.22953. ISSN 0855-4412.