Tem language

Tem (Temba), or Kotokoli (Cotocoli), is a Gur language spoken in Togo, Ghana, and Benin. It is used by neighboring peoples. In Ghana the Kotokoli people comes from a northern part of the Volta Region a town called Kuoe. Kuoe shares boarder with Togo with a small river which is called the Kuoe river separating it from Togo.

Tem
Kotokoli
Region	Togo, Ghana, Benin
Ethnicity	Tem people
Native speakers	290,000 in Togo and Benin (2001–2012)[1] ca. 50,000 in Ghana (1987–1993)[2]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Gur Southern Gurunsi Eastern Tem
Writing system	Latin (Tem alphabet) Tem Braille
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kdh
Glottolog	temm1241[3]

Writing System

Alphabet
Uppercase	A	B	C	D	Ɖ	E	Ɛ	F	G	Gb	H	I	Ɩ	J	K	Kp	L	M	N	Ny	Ŋ	Ŋm	O	Ɔ	P	R	S	T	U	Ʊ	V	W	Y	Z
Lowercase	a	b	c	d	ɖ	e	ɛ	f	g	gb	h	i	ɩ	j	k	kp	l	m	n	ny	ŋ	ŋm	o	ɔ	p	r	s	t	u	ʊ	v	w	y	z

High tone is indicated by an acute accent: á é ɛ́ í ɩ́ ó ɔ́ ú ʊ́, no accent indicates low tone. Long vowels are indicated by doubling the letter: aa ee ɛɛ ii ɩɩ oo ɔɔ uu ʊʊ, both are accented id the tone is high: (áá etc.), only the first is accented if the tone is descending (áa), only the second is accented if the tone is ascending (aá).

References

1. Tem at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Tem at Ethnologue (13th ed., 1996).
3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tem". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.