Countries
Fiji, India
Ghana, Ivory coast
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
Ghana
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Benin, United States of America
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
Akan Orthography Committee
Interesting Facts
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
- 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
Urdu
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4421
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1110
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3316
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
ete-sen
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
meda ase
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
wo ho te sɛn?
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
maadwo
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
maadwo
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
maaha
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
maakye
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
wae
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
Kafra
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
bye
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Me doכ wo
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
mepa wo kyɛw
Dialect 1
Khariboli
Asante
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
Ghana
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.009,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Marwari
Akuapem
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
Ghana
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bundeli
Fante
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
Ghana
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
213
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million11.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
4.70 %0.17 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
260.00 million11.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
हिन्दी
Akan
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
Twi, Fante
French Name
hindi
akan
German Name
Hindi
Akan-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
[ˈaːkã]
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
Akan people
Origin
7th Century
15
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
Akan
Language Position
5104
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Akan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
hi
ak
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hin
aka
ISO 639 2/B
hin
aka
ISO 639 3
hin
aka
ISO 639 6
hins
aka
Glottocode
hind1269
akan1251
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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