This paper investigated dialectal variation in lexical borrowings in Dangme, a language spoken in Southern Ghana. Dangme has seven dialects (Ada, Gbugblaa, Yilɔ Krobo, Manya Krobo, Nugo, Sε and ...

Their findings reflected many previously-studied trends in dialect variation: for example, men, farmers, and speakers further from the city of Florence were more likely to use dialectal, ...