Akan language
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Akan | |
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Akan | |
Native to | Ghana, Ivory Coast (Abron), Benin (Tchumbuli) |
Ethnicity | Akan people |
Native speakers | 32 million (2017) |
Latin (Twi alphabet, Fante alphabet) Twi Braille | |
Official status | |
Official language in | None. — Government-sponsored language of Ghana |
Regulated by | Akan Orthography Committee |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | ak |
ISO 639-2 | aka |
ISO 639-3 | aka – inclusive codeIndividual codes: abr – Abron dialect bqa – Tchumbuli fat – Fante dialect twi – Twi wss – Wasa |
Glottolog | akan1251 Akanic[1] |
Akan is a language group spoken by related peoples in mainly Ghana and eastern Côte d'Ivoire. It is understood by roughly 99% of Ghana's population.
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Akanic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.