Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Ghana
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
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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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
Similar To
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2123
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
106
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1614
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ete-sen
Kumno
Thank You
meda ase
Khublei
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
maadwo
thia sukh
Good Evening
maadwo
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
maaha
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
maakye
khublei
Please
wae
Sngewbha
Sorry
Kafra
Map
Bye
bye
khublei
I Love You
Me doכ wo
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
map a nga
Dialect 1
Asante
Bhoi
Where They Speak
Ghana
-
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Akuapem
Nonglung
Where They Speak
Ghana
-
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Fante
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
Ghana
-
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million0.84 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
11.00 million0.84 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Akan
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Twi, Fante
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
akan
khasi
German Name
Akan-Sprache
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈaːkã]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Akan people
Khasi people
Origin
15
1200 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Akan
Khasi
Language Position
10440
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Akan Sign Language
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ak
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
aka
kha
ISO 639 2/B
aka
kha
ISO 639 3
aka
kha
ISO 639 6
aka
kha
Glottocode
akan1251
khas1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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