Eʋe

"From the Eʋe context, Dawubo Gavɔ, the priest in charge of Anyigbatɔ Shrine in Denu, Ghana, explains that a prospective priesthood candidate is normally observed for six months before admission, then trained for a further three years."

"Today standard Eʋe is the variety that is used in educational and religious literature."

"He continued that Lome, which was mainly Aŋlɔ-speaking, would become the capital town, the educational headquarters, and the terminal for the proposed railway system which was to service the interior. This would give the western Eʋes more trading advantages. He added that already, indigenous clerks in the provincial centres of Kpalime and Kpando were western Eʋes (mostly Aŋlɔs) and not Popos (Anexɔs)."