Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Ghana
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2129
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
109
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1620
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ete-sen
hallo
Thank You
meda ase
takk
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
maadwo
god natt
Good Evening
maadwo
god kveld
Good Afternoon
maaha
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
maakye
god morgen
Please
wae
Vær så snill
Sorry
Kafra
unnskyld
Bye
bye
ha det
I Love You
Me doכ wo
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Asante
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Ghana
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Akuapem
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Ghana
Sogn
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Fante
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Ghana
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
319
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million5.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
11.00 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Akan
Norsk
Alternative Names
Twi, Fante
Norsk
French Name
akan
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Akan-Sprache
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[ˈaːkã]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Akan people
Norwegians
Origin
15
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Akan
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
10418
1
120
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Signed Forms
Akan Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ak
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
aka
nor
ISO 639 2/B
aka
nor
ISO 639 3
aka
nor
ISO 639 6
aka
nor
Glottocode
akan1251
norw1258
Linguasphere
No data available
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional