Ga
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Translingual
Symbol
Ga
English
Proper noun
Ga
- A Niger-Congo language spoken in Ghana and Togo.
Noun
Ga (plural Ga or Gas)
- A member of a particular ethnic group in Ghana and Togo.
- 2018 August 30, “Letter from Africa: Should Ghanaian women be limited to three babies?”, in BBC News:
- Among the Ga, the people who are indigenous to Ghana's capital, Accra, a woman is entitled to a live sheep on the delivery of her 10th child. The word for it is "nyongmato". […] Lots of very important people among the Gas can testify to this. Unfortunately, I have not met any woman who has actually got a live sheep for having given birth to 10 children.
Further reading
- Ethnologue entry for Ga, gaa
