guests. In a more modernized and mobile society funeral ceremonies now usually take place over a single weekend, sometimes several weeks after death to allow for distant relatives to travel and allow for accommodation of employment or work. Anlo-Ewe funerals are the most likely to involve colorful performances of dance and drumming groups. Lively and spectacular performances if the deceased was an honorable and involved member of the community. Sometimes distant family members may commission performances months after death if they could not be present at the actual funeral. See also Gbe languages Ewe language Ewe music Rulers of the Ewe state of Anlo Hogbetsotso festival Notes Anlo is known for a peculiarity of its tonal system. Like neighbouring Ewe varieties, Anlo has three tone levels, High (H), Mid (M), and Low (L). Of these three levels, the lower two are not phonemically contrastive. However, Anlo contrasts with the other dialect in the possession of a fourth tone level, the extra-High tone (R). The R tone is viewed as an innovation of Anlo, since the most economic way of generalising about the R tone is to apply 'R tone rules' to the common tonal forms to derive the Anlo tonal forms. Clements (1977) argues that the R tone is a case of tonal split caused by 'reanalysis of downstepped tone sequences as sequences of tones on distinct tone levels' (p 168). References Further reading Clements, George N. (1977) 'Four tones from three: the extra-high tone in Anlo Ewe'. In Kotey and Der-Houssikian (eds.) Language and linguistic problems in Africa. South Carolina: Hornbeam Press Inc. Clements, George N. (1985) 'Downdrift in a tone language with four tone levels'. In York Papers in Linguistics 15, July, pp. 33–40 Geurts, Kathryn (2003) Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community. Santa Barbara: University of California Press. Agbemabiese, Padmore. 2015.Aspects of Ewe Culture: An Introduction. Part One. Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany 9783330044555 External links Anlo-Ewe People Ethnic groups in Togo Ethnic groups in Nigeria Ethnic groups in Ghana Ewe people pt:Ewés