DIFINITION OF GA
Ga is the derivation of Gaga (soldier ants) which in step with Reindorf (1895, p.24) is the names of the large black ants which bites severely and are dangerous to the white ants. However, he cited that the natives called themselves Loeiabii (youngsters of Loei). Of path, Loei is a Ga call for another species of dark brown ants, which meanders about in awesome swarms; invading homes, killing and devouring everything in their manner. These marauding ants recognized to the Akans as nkrang, and whose competitive nature have been attributed to the powerful wandering Ga emigrant tribes; effortlessly subdued other tribes as well as the Guans who had been the aborigines of the land. This turned into the call ascribed to the Ga-talking tribes because of their prowess and bravado in warfare, and the Portuguese due to their difficulty in pronunciation in a while corrupted it to Akra.
THE CULTURE OF GA LANGUAGE
Ga language in step with Henderson-Quartey (2001, p.38) conveys oral traditions through which the history of its speakers are revealed, and the way by way of which the individuals of the society proportion their collective experience and information through commonplace bond. He postulates that when you consider that there has been no existing written record of the Ga language previous to the Eighteenth Century, it'd be difficult to know the distinction between the sorts of the language spoken now and say 2000 years in the past. He, but, argued that from the archaeological point of view of the tiers of human development, it's far reasonable to count on that some shape of evolution has taken area inside the Ga language; both through migrations, conquest, change, cultural assimilation or contact with audio system of various dialects has triggered sizeable modification of the Ga language. This in his opinion is the case of "the coastal city of Kpone, once Adangme, is now Ga speakme."
The Ga language compared with different spoken phrases in etymology in line with Greenberg (UNESCO, Vol.1, p.304), is classed a number of the Kwa organization of languages discovered on the African Continent. These classifications includes the Kru languages, Western Kwa, made of Ewe-Fon, Akan-Guan every now and then called Volta-Camoe, Ga-Adangme, Yoruba-Igala, Nupe, Edo, Idoma, Ibio, and Ijo companies. Commenting similarly at the evolution of the Ga language, Henderson-Quartey postulates that though it's far closest to the Adangme and percentage a top notch deal of similarities no longer simplest in root-words however additionally in language shape; it has below long past a few shape of modifications by borrowing phrases from the Yoruba, Guans, Akans, Portuguese, and English languages to enhance the Ga vocabulary.
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20 май 2023
