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Eʋeland
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English
Etymology
From en Eʋe land.
Proper noun
en Eweland.
en w:Gilbert Ansre Language Standardisation in Sub-Saharan Africa Thomas A[lbert] Sebeok Current Trends in Linguistics 7 (Linguistics in Sub-Saharan Africa) The Hague; Paris Mouton 1971 684 https://archive.org/details/currenttrendsinl0007sebe/page/684/mode/1up 64-3663 The main sources of information about the development of Standard Eʋe are in German. There are two main reasons for this: First, German missionaries of the Norddeutsche Missions-Gesellschaft (Bremen) were the first to bring Christianity, with the formal western education that was associated with it, to Eʋeland. Secondly, the German colony of Togo lay in the heartland of Eʋeland.
en Charles M. K. Mamattah The Eʋes of West Africa: The Aŋlɔ-Eʋes and Their Immediate Neighbours Volta Research Publications 1976 66 The Eastern boundary is the Mɔnɔ, Daxomε. But Eʋeland is officially known to be bounded on the East by the artificial international frontier between Ghana-Togo-Dahomey-Nigeria.
en Greeting Performance In Eʋeland Southern Folklore 48 1991 224 Today, while formal greetings are still performed in rural Eʋeland, in the southern cities they are undergoing significant lexical and structural changes, so much so that they are becoming authentic urban greeting performances.
en David C. K. Tay [Bremen Mission Society and E. P. Church: 1847-1955] Post Asante War Growth Mawuli School: The Early Years FriesenPress 2017 978-1-4602-9799-5 Within the post-Asante War period when progress was being made in Peki, the Bremen Mission church expansion occurred steadily in other areas of Eʋeland also.