(Clements 1975: 152) The sentences in (8) and (9) have shown that the Ewe language makes a sharp distinction between indirect speech and direct speech.
the logophoric pronoun yè is exclusively used in the reportive context, as in (8), and the first person pronoun ma, which is the complex form consisting of the first person pronoun me and tense marker a-, as in (9), is normally used to refer to the external speaker in direct speech.