Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Ghana
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2148
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1012
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
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ete-sen
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
meda ase
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
maadwo
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
maadwo
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
maaha
Good afternoon
Good Morning
maakye
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
wae
कृपया
Sorry
Kafra
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Me doכ wo
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Asante
Doteli
Where They Speak
Ghana
Nepal
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Akuapem
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Ghana
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Fante
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Ghana
Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
312
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
11.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Akan
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Twi, Fante
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
akan
népalais
German Name
Akan-Sprache
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˈaːkã]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Akan people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
15
19 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Akan
Nepali
Language Position
10459
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Akan Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ak
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
aka
nep
ISO 639 2/B
aka
nep
ISO 639 3
aka
npi
ISO 639 6
aka
nep
Glottocode
akan1251
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative