Countries
Myanmar
Ghana, Ivory coast
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Ghana
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Mon
Benin, United States of America
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Akan Orthography Committee
Interesting Facts
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
- 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.
Similar To
Thai Language
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Derived From
Pali Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3321
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1210
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3316
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
ete-sen
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
meda ase
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
wo ho te sɛn?
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
maadwo
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
maadwo
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
maaha
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
maakye
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
wae
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Kafra
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
bye
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Me doכ wo
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
mepa wo kyɛw
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Asante
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Ghana
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.009,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Akuapem
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Ghana
How Many People Speak
440,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Fante
Where They Speak
Burma
Ghana
How Many People Speak
90,000.001,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
43.00 million11.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.17 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
33.00 million11.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Akan
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Twi, Fante
French Name
birman
akan
German Name
Birmanisch
Akan-Sprache
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[ˈaːkã]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Akan people
Origin
1113 AD
15
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Akan
Language Position
43104
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Akan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
my
ak
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
aka
ISO 639 2/B
bur
aka
ISO 639 3
mya
aka
ISO 639 6
mya
aka
Glottocode
sout3159
akan1251
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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