Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Ghana
Nepal, Tibet
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
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2135
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1630
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ete-sen
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
meda ase
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
maadwo
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
maadwo
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
maaha
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
maakye
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
wae
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Kafra
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Me doכ wo
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Asante
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Ghana
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Akuapem
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Ghana
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Fante
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Ghana
China
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
11.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
11.00 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Akan
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Twi, Fante
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
akan
tibétain
German Name
Akan-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈaːkã]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Akan people
tibetan people
Origin
15
c. 650
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Akan
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
10429
1
120
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Signed Forms
Akan Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
ak
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
aka
bod
ISO 639 2/B
aka
tib
ISO 639 3
aka
bod
ISO 639 6
aka
bod
Glottocode
akan1251
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-