Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Ghana
Indonesia
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
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
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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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2127
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
106
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1621
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ete-sen
Halo
Thank You
meda ase
matur nuwun
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
piye kabare?
Good Night
maadwo
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
maadwo
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
maaha
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
maakye
Sugeng énjing
Please
wae
matur nuwun
Sorry
Kafra
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
Me doכ wo
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Asante
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Ghana
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Akuapem
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Ghana
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Fante
Arekan
Where They Speak
Ghana
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
316
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
11.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Akan
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Twi, Fante
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
akan
javanais
German Name
Akan-Sprache
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈaːkã]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Akan people
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
15
450 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Akan
Javanese
Language Position
10411
1
120
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Signed Forms
Akan Sign Language
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ak
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
aka
jav
ISO 639 2/B
aka
jav
ISO 639 3
aka
jav
ISO 639 6
aka
jav
Glottocode
akan1251
java1253
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative