Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Ghana
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2126
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1024
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1623
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
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ete-sen
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
meda ase
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
maadwo
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
maadwo
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
maaha
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
maakye
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
wae
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Kafra
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Me doכ wo
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Asante
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Ghana
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Akuapem
Wu
Where They Speak
Ghana
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Fante
Yue
Where They Speak
Ghana
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
11.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Akan
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Twi, Fante
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
akan
chinois
German Name
Akan-Sprache
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈaːkã]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Akan people
Han
Origin
15
1250 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Akan
Standard Chinese
Language Position
1041
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Akan Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ak
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
aka
zho
ISO 639 2/B
aka
chi
ISO 639 3
aka
zho
ISO 639 6
aka
zho
Glottocode
akan1251
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating