Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Ghana
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
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.
- Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
- 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
Similar To
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Romanian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2136
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
107
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1629
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ete-sen
Përshëndetje
Thank You
meda ase
Ju faleminderit
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
Si jeni?
Good Night
maadwo
natën e mirë
Good Evening
maadwo
mirëmbrëma
Good Afternoon
maaha
mirëdita
Good Morning
maakye
mirëmengjes
Please
wae
Ju lutem
Sorry
Kafra
Me fal
Bye
bye
mirupafshim
I Love You
Me doכ wo
unë e dua ju
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
Më falni
Dialect 1
Asante
Gheg Albanian
Where They Speak
Ghana
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.003,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Akuapem
Tosk Albanian
Where They Speak
Ghana
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Fante
Arbëresh
Where They Speak
Ghana
Italy
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million7.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
11.00 million3.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million3.60 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Akan
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Alternative Names
Twi, Fante
Shqip
French Name
akan
albanais
German Name
Akan-Sprache
Albanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈaːkã]
[ʃcip]
Ethnicity
Akan people
Albanians
Origin
15
1462 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Albanian
Standard Forms
Akan
Standard Albanian
Language Position
10414
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Akan Sign Language
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ak
sq
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
aka
sqi
ISO 639 2/B
aka
alb
ISO 639 3
aka
sqi
ISO 639 6
aka
sqi
Glottocode
akan1251
alba1267
Linguasphere
No data available
55-AAA-aaa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic