Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Ghana
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
Palau
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2199
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1614
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ete-sen
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
meda ase
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
maadwo
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
maadwo
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
maaha
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
maakye
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
wae
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Kafra
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Me doכ wo
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Asante
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Ghana
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Akuapem
Hakata
Where They Speak
Ghana
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Fante
Kansai
Where They Speak
Ghana
kansai
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
331
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
11.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Akan
日本語
Alternative Names
Twi, Fante
Nihongo
French Name
akan
japonais
German Name
Akan-Sprache
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈaːkã]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Akan people
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
15
1185
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Akan
Japanese
Language Position
1048
1
120
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Signed Forms
Akan Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ak
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
aka
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
aka
jpn
ISO 639 3
aka
jpn
ISO 639 6
aka
jpn
Glottocode
akan1251
nucl1643
Linguasphere
No data available
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic