Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Ghana
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
India
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
Dzongkha Development Commission
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.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
-
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2195
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1630
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ete-sen
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
meda ase
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
maadwo
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
maadwo
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
maaha
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
maakye
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
wae
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
Kafra
Tsip maza
Bye
bye
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Me doכ wo
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Asante
Laya
Where They Speak
Ghana
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Akuapem
Lunana
Where They Speak
Ghana
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Fante
Adap
Where They Speak
Ghana
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
11.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Akan
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Twi, Fante
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
akan
dzongkha
German Name
Akan-Sprache
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[ˈaːkã]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Akan people
Ngalop people
Origin
15
17th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Akan
Dzongkha
Language Position
10431
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Akan Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ak
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
aka
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
aka
dzo
ISO 639 3
aka
dzo
ISO 639 6
aka
dzo
Glottocode
akan1251
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-