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Countries

Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

National Language
Ghana

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents
Africa

Minority Language
Benin, United States of America

Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee

Interesting Facts
  • Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
  • Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.

Similar To
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages

Derived From
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
21 3

Phonology

How Many Vowels
10 7

How Many Consonants
16 6

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

Greetings

Hello
ete-sen

Thank You
meda ase

How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?

Good Night
maadwo

Good Evening
maadwo

Good Afternoon
maaha

Good Morning
maakye

Please
wae

Sorry
Kafra

Bye
bye

I Love You
Me doכ wo

Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw

Dialects

Dialect 1
Asante

Where They Speak
Ghana

How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00 39

Dialect 2
Akuapem

Where They Speak
Ghana

How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00 38

Dialect 3
Fante

Where They Speak
Ghana

How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00 49

Total No. Of Dialects
3 3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
11.00 million 51

Speaking Population
0.17 % 50

Native Speakers
11.00 million 45

Second Language Speakers
21.00 million 29

Native Name
Akan

Alternative Names
Twi, Fante

French Name
akan

German Name
Akan-Sprache

Pronunciation
[ˈaːkã]

Ethnicity
Akan people

History

Origin
15

Language Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup
-

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
No early forms

Standard Forms
Akan

Language Position
104 76

Signed Forms
Akan Sign Language

Scope
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1
ak

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
aka

ISO 639 2/B
aka

ISO 639 3
aka

ISO 639 6
aka

Glottocode
akan1251

Linguasphere
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
-

Language Morphological Typology
-

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Know Alphabets in Akan

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Akan Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Akan Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Akan. Akan phonology gives Akan vowels and Akan consonants. There are 10 vowels and 16 consonants in Akan language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Akan is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Akan language is given in detail in this section.

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All Akan countries

Want to explore all Akan countries? About Akan language serves you with all Akan Speaking Countries. Countries that use Akan as official language are called as Akan countries.

  • Countries that use Akan as their National Language are: Ghana.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Akan as second language are: Akan is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Akan greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Akan Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Akan language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Akan language.Learn Akan greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: ete-sen
  • Thank you: meda ase
  • Good Morning: maakye
  • Good Evening: maadwo
  • Good Afternoon: maaha

All Akan Language Codes

Get to know all Akan language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Akan Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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