Brindle, J., Dakubu, M. E. K., & Kambon, Ọ
Journal of West African Languages, 42(1), 65-88
Publication year: 2015

Abstract

In this paper we discuss a language called Kiliji by its speakers, which has not previously (to the best of our knowledge) been noted in the literature, at least in Ghana. It is the ritual language of a women’s spiritual group known popularly as Okule or more correctly as Oko Alija. The spiritual system is practiced among women in several communities in Guang and Ghana-Togo Mountain areas of the Ghana-Togo border area, including in several Nawuri-speaking villages as well as farther east in Adele and Achode. It is presumably practiced in Togo as well but we have no information on that. As we will show, the language and the spiritual practices it is connected with are clearly of Yorùbá origin, and therefore most likely arrived in the area from the Ifè (Togo) Yorùbá speaking communities. Kiliji is argued to be the westernmost recorded instantiation in Africa of a Yorùbá variety used in performing rituals related to the deity Chankpana.

Dans cet article, nous examinons une langue dénommée Kiliji par ses locuteurs qui, (à notre connaissance) n’a jamais été consignée dans la littérature, du moins au Ghana. C’est la langue de rituel d’un groupe spirituel de femmes connues sous le nom de Okule ou plus correctement d’Oko Alija. Le système spirituel est pratiqué par des femmes dans plusieurs communautés dans les zones du Guang et de la Chaîne Montagneuse de Ghana-Tongo, y compris dans plusieurs villages de locuteurs Nawuri aussi bien plus à l’est en Adele et Achode. On le pratique également au Togo mais nous n’avons pas d’information précise à ce sujet. Comme nous allons le montrer, la langue ainsi que les pratiques spirituelles auxquelles elle est connectée sont clairement d’origine Yoruba et, c’est pourquoi elles sont arrivées dans la zone à partir des communautés locutrices du Yoruba d’Ife (Togo). Kiliji est ici proposé comme la manifestation de la variété du Yoruba qui soit parlée dans la partie la plus occidentale de l’Afrique et utilisée dans les rites du spectacle liés à la divinité Chankpana.

One Response to “Kiliji, An Unrecorded Spiritual Language of Eastern Ghana”

  1. Kwadwo

    Excellent work

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