Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Ghana
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Filipinos
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Australia
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages 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.
- In 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
- The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".
Similar To
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2125
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1618
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Baybayin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ete-sen
Kamusta
Thank You
meda ase
Salamat po
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
Kamusta ka na?
Good Night
maadwo
Magandang gabi
Good Evening
maadwo
Magandang gabi po
Good Afternoon
maaha
Magandang hapon po
Good Morning
maakye
Magandang umaga po
Please
wae
pakiusap
Sorry
Kafra
pinagsisisihan
Bye
bye
Paálam
I Love You
Me doכ wo
Iniibig kita
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
Dialect 1
Asante
Batangas Tagalog
Where They Speak
Ghana
Batangas, Gabon
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Akuapem
Bisalog
Where They Speak
Ghana
Philippines
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Fante
Filipino
Where They Speak
Ghana
Philippines
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million73.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
11.00 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million45.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Akan
Tagalog
Alternative Names
Twi, Fante
Filipino, Pilipino
French Name
akan
tagalog
German Name
Akan-Sprache
Tagalog
Pronunciation
[ˈaːkã]
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
Ethnicity
Akan people
Tagalog people
Origin
15
1593
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
Standard Forms
Akan
Filipino
Language Position
10458
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Akan Sign Language
Signed Tagalog
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ak
t1
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
aka
tgl
ISO 639 2/B
aka
tgl
ISO 639 3
aka
tg1
ISO 639 6
aka
tgl
Glottocode
akan1251
taga1269
Linguasphere
No data available
31-CKA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
-