Countries
Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Ghana
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
Asam Sahitya Sabha
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.
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
Similar To
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Bengali and Oriya
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2152
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1011
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1641
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Bengali
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
ete-sen
nomoskaar
Thank You
meda ase
ḍhonyobaaḍ
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
aapuni kene aase?
Good Night
maadwo
subhoraattri
Good Evening
maadwo
subha gadhuli
Good Afternoon
maaha
subha abeli
Good Morning
maakye
suprobhaat
Please
wae
anugroha kori
Sorry
Kafra
moi ḍukkhita
Bye
bye
biḍai
I Love You
Me doכ wo
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
kyoma koribo
Dialects
Dialect 1
Asante
Kamrupi
Where They Speak
Ghana
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Akuapem
Goalpariya
Where They Speak
Ghana
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Fante
Bhakatiya
Where They Speak
Ghana
Assam
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million15.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
11.00 million15.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Akan
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
Alternative Names
Twi, Fante
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
French Name
akan
assamais
German Name
Akan-Sprache
Assamesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈaːkã]
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
Ethnicity
Akan people
Assamese people
History
Origin
15
7th century A.D
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Kamarupa
Standard Forms
Akan
Assamese
Language Position
10465
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Akan Sign Language
Signed Assamese
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ak
as
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
aka
asm
ISO 639 2/B
aka
asm
ISO 639 3
aka
asm
ISO 639 6
aka
asm
Glottocode
akan1251
assa1263
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-