Countries
Indonesia
Ghana, Ivory coast
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Indonesia
Ghana
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Benin, United States of America
Regulated By
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Akan Orthography Committee
Interesting Facts
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
- 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
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2721
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
610
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2116
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
ete-sen
Thank You
matur nuwun
meda ase
How Are You?
piye kabare?
wo ho te sɛn?
Good Night
wengi sing apik
maadwo
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
maadwo
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
maaha
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
maakye
Please
matur nuwun
wae
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
Kafra
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
bye
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
Me doכ wo
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
mepa wo kyɛw
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Asante
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Ghana
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.009,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Akuapem
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Ghana
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Fante
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Ghana
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.001,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
163
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million11.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.17 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million11.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
Akan
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Twi, Fante
French Name
javanais
akan
German Name
Javanisch
Akan-Sprache
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[ˈaːkã]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Akan people
Origin
450 AD
15
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Javanese
Akan
Language Position
11104
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Akan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
jv
ak
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
aka
ISO 639 2/B
jav
aka
ISO 639 3
jav
aka
ISO 639 6
jav
aka
Glottocode
java1253
akan1251
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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