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Countries

Countries

Ghana, Ivory coast
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

27
0 46
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National Language

Ghana
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Africa
Europe

Minority Language

Benin, United States of America
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Akan Orthography Committee
Council for German Orthography

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

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Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2126
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1010
0 32
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How Many Consonants

169
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

ete-sen
hallo

Thank You

meda ase
Danke

How Are You?

wo ho te sɛn?
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

maadwo
gute Nacht

Good Evening

maadwo
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

maaha
guten Tag

Good Morning

maakye
guten Morgen

Please

wae
bitte

Sorry

Kafra
Verzeihung

Bye

bye
Tschüs

I Love You

Me doכ wo
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

mepa wo kyɛw
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Asante
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Ghana
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

9,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Akuapem
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Ghana
Germany

How Many People Speak

9,000,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Fante
Texas German

Where They Speak

Ghana
Texas

How Many People Speak

1,900,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

328
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

11.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.17 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

11.00 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

21.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Akan
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Twi, Fante
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

akan
allemand

German Name

Akan-Sprache
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[ˈaːkã]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Akan people
Germans

History

Origin

15
6th Century AD

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
Germanic

Branch

-
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Akan
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

1049
1 120
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Signed Forms

Akan Sign Language
Signed German

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ak
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

aka
deu

ISO 639 2/B

aka
ger

ISO 639 3

aka
deu

ISO 639 6

aka
deus

Glottocode

akan1251
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

No data available
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Fusional, Synthetic

Akan and German Alphabets

Akan and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Akan and German. In Akan Alphabets there are 21 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Akan and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Akan and German languages. The Akan phonology consist Akan vowels and Akan consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Akan greetings vs German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Akan and German are Most Spoken Languages.

All Akan and German Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Akan and German dialects. Various dialects of Akan and German language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Akan are spoken in different Akan Speaking Countries whereas German Dialects are spoken in different German speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Akan vs German Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Akan dialects include: Asante, Akuapem. German dialects include: Swiss German , Swabian German. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Akan and German Speaking population

Akan and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Akan and German languages can be compared. The total count of Akan and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Akan language is 0.17 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Akan and German on Akan vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Akan and German Language Codes

Akan and German language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Akan and German Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.