Countries
Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Ghana
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Marathi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2152
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1016
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1636
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
ete-sen
Namaskar
Thank You
meda ase
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
kaso assa?
Good Night
maadwo
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
maadwo
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
maaha
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
maakye
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
wae
Chike
Sorry
Kafra
Maf kor
Bye
bye
Adeus
I Love You
Me doכ wo
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
upkar korxi
Dialects
Dialect 1
Asante
Antruz
Where They Speak
Ghana
Goa
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Akuapem
Not present
Where They Speak
Ghana
-
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Fante
Not present
Where They Speak
Ghana
-
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
11.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Akan
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Twi, Fante
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
akan
konkani
German Name
Akan-Sprache
Konkani
Pronunciation
[ˈaːkã]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Akan people
Konkanis
History
Origin
15
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Akan
Kokani
Language Position
10423
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Akan Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
ak
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
aka
kok
ISO 639 2/B
aka
kok
ISO 639 3
aka
kok
ISO 639 6
aka
kok
Glottocode
akan1251
goan1235
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-