Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Ghana
China, Guangdong
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
Hawaii
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2128
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
108
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1620
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ete-sen
您好
Thank You
meda ase
谢谢
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
你好吗？
Good Night
maadwo
晚安
Good Evening
maadwo
晚上好
Good Afternoon
maaha
下午好
Good Morning
maakye
早上好
Please
wae
请
Sorry
Kafra
遗憾
Bye
bye
再见
I Love You
Me doכ wo
我爱你
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
原谅我
Dialect 1
Asante
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Ghana
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Akuapem
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Ghana
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Fante
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Ghana
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
11.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Akan
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Twi, Fante
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
akan
cantonais
German Name
Akan-Sprache
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈaːkã]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Akan people
Han Chinese
Origin
15
17th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Akan
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
1041
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Akan Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
ak
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
aka
yue
ISO 639 2/B
aka
yue
ISO 639 3
aka
No data available
ISO 639 6
aka
yue
Glottocode
akan1251
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-