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NAWURI PROVERBS

Nawuri is a Guan language spoken in the Northern and Oti Regions of Ghana. And we look at some wise sayings in the Nawuri Language 1. It is not on the day of a woman in deep labour that she is advised to close her legs and not open her legs in public. It might be a good advise at the wrong time. 2. It is the feathers of a bird that makes it bigger than its actual size. 3. A chief that display arrogance and total disrespect to his subjects and people will end up carrying his own stool to durbar grounds and back without any accomplice. 4. Everyone in this World wants a fool to do all the dirty work and run all the dangerous errands for them, but none is praying and desiring to give birth to one. 5. As long as you continue to block others from reaching and counting nine (9), it will be extremely difficult for you to also reach and count ten (10). 6. Only a fool goes to bargain for the price of fish in the river with a fisherman yet to be caught by the fisherman. Thanks and stay

DOES THE GA & DANGME LANGUAGES OF GHANA HAVE DIALECTS?

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Many people ask this question if the Ga language has a dialect and the answer is "yes." It has dialects not just a dialect but then, the Ga dialects are not so distinct as it is seen with other languages. As it is with every other language, the Ga language together with its sister language Dangme developed from a proto language which we shall call Proto GaDangme.   This Proto GaDangme language would eventually split up over time into Old Ga and Old Dangme . The old Dangme areas spanned from Ada to as far as somewhere Gbugbla whereas the Old Ga territories spanned to Weija. Now , Kpone, in the past, was a mixed Ga and Dangme territory where Old Ga and Old Dangme speakers lived side by side.  Old Ga was closely related to Old Dangme with just pointable differences. Old Ga evolved to modern Ga and old Dangme evolved to Modern Dangme. Modern Dangme has about 5 dialects; the Ada dialect, Nugo dialect, Gbugbla dialect, Klo dialect and Shai-Osu dialect. Let us see a rather opened e

STRUCTURE OF LESSONS ON HUNIAH-YOURHIGHNESS TV (LEARN GA & DANGME WITH HUNIAH)

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Huniah-Yourhighness Tv officially started November 2021, with the aim to help create a channel for the learning of the Ga language principally. Dangme was later included. The Ga lessons are highly patronised as compared to its Dangme counterpart. In the future, there is likely to be a revision due to the statistics that would be available then. Many ask how lessons are structured on this channel because they do not seem to follow any order and appear to be scanty. After careful thought, I decided to use the power of playlist and this blog to help order the lessons. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- With this fact established, let me help you understand the channel and how to properly navigate your way through to maximise its content for your own benefit. Also, do not forget we need support to grow so sharing, equipment and monetary support are needed.       THE CONTENTS OF THE CHANNEL The channel has 5  main groups of videos and they are Ga les

DON BRAINY, UPCOMING SUPERSTAR FROM KLO - DWEMTSE

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 Don Brainy was born James Teye Tetteh. He is a teacher by profession although he is a singer, rapper and a song writer. He hails from Nuaso in the Manya Krobo municipality but he was born and raised at Asesewa. He attended Asesewa Presby Primary and J.H.S and later continued to Akro Senior High Secondary School. Technically,in the year 2003, he recorded his 1st demo and in that same year, started his movement, "The Dotty Raiders" way back in S.H.S. "The Dotty Raiders" movement is what has now grown overtime to be known as the Brain Empire. He launched a 10 track album entitled Klo Hengme which is to translate as (The eye of  the Krobo land). On July1st, 2020, which happened to his birthday, he released a motivational single entitled "Hustle Dey Pay" which is gradually travelling far. He has won awards such as the Best Directed Video, Best Reggae Dancehall Video and Best Collaborated Video with his song "Big Question" during the Eastern Music Vi

CM BADDO, THE NEXT STAR FROM ODUMASE KROBO

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 He was born Akurugu Emmanuel at Odumase Krobo. He hails from the Upper East Region of Ghana.  He goes by the stage name CM BADDO. He is a sound producer who is more crafted in ragga and in singing as well. His parents are Talensis, a dialectic Frafra group in the Upper East Region but lived all his live in Odumase Krobo. He attended Akro Senior High School and completed in the year 2013. It was in the year 2014 that CM Baddo decided to venture into singing but as life would have it, CM Baddo had his personal challenges which he certainly had to overcome to get to where he is now. Well, the young man had focus and was ready to persevere. He came up with his 1st EP/album which he entitled THE REVOLUTION. CM Baddo admitted he was lost in the scene for a while after his album launch. That was necessary though for him to reflect on a whole lot in order to come back stronger. Over the past few months, he came back to the music scene and he has been able to release 4 singles. And they are ;

SENYEHA, THE RISING STAR FROM LIKPE

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 He was born Sylvester Etsyi Clifford but known in the entertainment circle as Senyeha. He is a singer and a rapper who hails from Likpe- bakwa to be precise. He is very passionate about his singing especially in his local dialect, Likpe and he is gradually gaining grounds. He furthered that when he was very young, he was part of the Likpe-Bakwa sacred Singers Choir as well as his entire family.  He left Likpe to join his dad in Cape Coast just so he could school in the year 2011. He had few friends whom he would usually join to have rap battles and rap sessions with and Senyeha admitted that it helped him a lot. He said  "I had few freinds from way back J.H.S and they use to rap. I wanted to join them but I was shy so I one day approached them and told them I could do what they are doing. Well. I was shy a bit because I could not rap in Fante." He furthered that he tried the rap in a mix of languages and they were Ewe, Twi, English and Sekwa (the language spoken by the peopl

THE LARTEH LANGUAGE AND ITS EFFECT ON CONTEMPORARY GUAN LANGUAGES

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           IMPORTANT WORDS TO NOTE 1.       Awutu– The main language spoken by the people of Awutu-Bireku, Akotsi, Badwiase etc. 2.       Efutu – The language spoken by the brothers of the Awutus. They are Ojobi, Senya-Bireku, Winneba, Kweikrom and more 3.       Gua – The language spoken by the people of Anum-Boso 4.       Larteh – The Language spoken by the people of Larteh 5.       Anufor – The Language spoken by the Chakosi people 6. Kyipon - the language spoken mainly by the people of Abiriw, parts of Akropong and Tutu,  Dawu. Awukugua, Adukrom, Apirede, Aseseeso, Akuni, Abonsen and some communities around Koforidua.   Larteh is a Ga-Akan Related Guan language spoken in the Eastern Region of Ghana. It is most closely related to Awutu, Gua and Kyripon which are all members of the Ga-Akan Related Guan languages. Efutu and Nkonya are also Ga-Akan Related Guan languages but a bit distant in terms of close relations to Larteh. Indeed, Larteh may refer to a specific community but it goes