Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Ghana
India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal
Speaking Continents
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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2147
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
108
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1622
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ete-sen
pranam
Thank You
meda ase
dhanyabad
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
maadwo
Śubharātri
Good Evening
maadwo
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
maaha
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
maakye
Suprabhaat
Please
wae
kripaya
Sorry
Kafra
maf karai
Bye
bye
Alavidā
I Love You
Me doכ wo
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
kripaya
Dialect 1
Asante
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
Ghana
Nepal
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Akuapem
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Ghana
North India
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Fante
Khortha
Where They Speak
Ghana
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
315
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million32.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.41 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
11.00 million27.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Akan
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Twi, Fante
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
akan
maithili
German Name
Akan-Sprache
Maithili
Pronunciation
[ˈaːkã]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Akan people
Maithil
Origin
15
14th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Akan
Standard Maithili
Language Position
10440
1
120
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Signed Forms
Akan Sign Language
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ak
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
aka
mai
ISO 639 2/B
aka
mai
ISO 639 3
aka
mai
ISO 639 6
aka
mai
Glottocode
akan1251
mait1250
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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-
Language Morphological Typology
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