Akan, also known by its major dialect names Twi and Fante, is the main native language of the Akan people and is spoken over much of the southern half of Ghana. About 44 percent of Ghanaians are native speakers and roughly 80 percent of the country's population speaks it as a first or second language, with its Bono dialect also spoken across the border in Ivory Coast.
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ISO 639-3 Code Classification
Language Kind Partially Attested
Speaker CountFirst-language speakers only; about 1 million more speak it as a second language. Akan
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Source Twi-Fante language (Wikipedia)
Source Twi-Fante language (Wikipedia)
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Akan is standardly written in a Latin-based orthography (Twi/Fante conventions).
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Source Akan people (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia articleQuote, Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article
The Akan () people, or Akanfoɔ, are a Kwa group living primarily in Ghana and parts of Ivory Coast in West Africa.
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Source Asante people (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia articleQuote, Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article
The Asante, also known as Ashanti in English ( ), are part of the Akan ethnic group and are native to the Ashanti Region of modern-day Ghana.
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Source Akan language (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia articleQuote, Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article
Twi-Fante, commonly referred to by its speakers as either Twi (pronounced ) or Fante () and academically and institutionally known by the broader term Akan (pronounced ), is a widely spoken language of Ghana and the main native language of the Akan people.
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1. Glottolog: Akan
GlottologEndangermentQuote, Endangerment
Akan (aka-aka) = 3 (Wider communication).
2. WALS Online (World Atlas of Language Structures): Akan / Order of Subject, Object and Verb (WALS datapoint)
WALS Online (World Atlas of Language Structures)Datapoint pageQuote, Datapoint page
Feature: Order of Subject, Object and Verb by Matthew S. Dryer Value: SVO
3. WALS Online (World Atlas of Language Structures): Akan / Tone (WALS datapoint)
WALS Online (World Atlas of Language Structures)Datapoint pageQuote, Datapoint page
Feature: Tone by Ian Maddieson Value: Simple tone system
4. Akan language (Wikipedia)
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aka
Infobox: date
2013
Opening paragraph
about 80% of Ghana's population speak Akan as a first or second language
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Twi-Fante, commonly referred to by its speakers as either Twi (pronounced ) or Fante () and academically and institutionally known by the broader term Akan (pronounced ), is a widely spoken language of Ghana and the main native language of the Akan people.
View the SourceTwi-Fante language (Wikipedia)
In Family: Atlantic-Congo, Infobox: fam2
Atlantic-Congo
In Family: Potou-Tano languages, Infobox: fam5
Potou-Tano
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