Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Ghana
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2121
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1619
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ete-sen
Bwakeye
Thank You
meda ase
Urakoze
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
Urakomeye?
Good Night
maadwo
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
maadwo
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
maaha
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
maakye
Mwaramutse
Please
wae
Ndagusavye
Sorry
Kafra
Ndasubiza
Bye
bye
N’agasaga
I Love You
Me doכ wo
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Asante
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
Ghana
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Akuapem
Ha
Where They Speak
Ghana
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Fante
Shubi
Where They Speak
Ghana
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million8.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
11.00 million8.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Akan
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Twi, Fante
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
akan
rundi
German Name
Akan-Sprache
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[ˈaːkã]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Akan people
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
15
1500
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Akan
Kirundi
Language Position
10486
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Akan Sign Language
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
ak
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
aka
run
ISO 639 2/B
aka
run
ISO 639 3
aka
run
ISO 639 6
aka
run
Glottocode
akan1251
rund1242
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
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