Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Ghana
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
Botswana, Lesotho
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
-
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
-
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2153
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1010
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1643
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ete-sen
Molo
Thank You
meda ase
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
Unjani
Good Night
maadwo
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
maadwo
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
maaha
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
maakye
Molo
Please
wae
Ndicela
Sorry
Kafra
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
Me doכ wo
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Asante
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Ghana
South Africa
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Akuapem
Thembu
Where They Speak
Ghana
South Africa
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Fante
Hlubi
Where They Speak
Ghana
South Africa
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0019.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
39
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
11.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Akan
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Twi, Fante
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
akan
xhosa
German Name
Akan-Sprache
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈaːkã]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Akan people
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
15
16th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Akan
isiXhosa
Language Position
10421
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Akan Sign Language
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ak
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
aka
xho
ISO 639 2/B
aka
xho
ISO 639 3
aka
xho
ISO 639 6
aka
xho
Glottocode
akan1251
xhos1239
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
-