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Countries

Countries

Meghalaya
Ghana, Ivory coast

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Bangladesh, India
Ghana

Second Language

-
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa

Minority Language

-
Benin, United States of America

Regulated By

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Akan Orthography Committee

Interesting Facts

  • Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
  • There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
  • 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

Garo and Jaintia Languages
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2321
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

610
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1416
9 60
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Scripts

Bengali, Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Kumno
ete-sen

Thank You

Khublei
meda ase

How Are You?

Kumno phi long?
wo ho te sɛn?

Good Night

thia sukh
maadwo

Good Evening

babha janmiet
maadwo

Good Afternoon

babha noph-phai-sngi
maaha

Good Morning

khublei
maakye

Please

Sngewbha
wae

Sorry

Map
Kafra

Bye

khublei
bye

I Love You

ieit ieit
Me doכ wo

Excuse Me

map a nga
mepa wo kyɛw

Dialects

Dialect 1

Bhoi
Asante

Where They Speak

-
Ghana

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.009,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Nonglung
Akuapem

Where They Speak

-
Ghana

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.009,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Cherrapunji
Fante

Where They Speak

-
Ghana

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.001,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

53
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.84 million11.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.01 %0.17 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.84 million11.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million21.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Ka Ktien
Akan

Alternative Names

Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Twi, Fante

French Name

khasi
akan

German Name

Khasi-Sprache
Akan-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈkʰɑsi]
[ˈaːkã]

Ethnicity

Khasi people
Akan people

History

Origin

1200 AD
15

Language Family

Austroasiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No Early Forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Khasi
Akan

Language Position

40104
1 120
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Signed Forms

Khasi Sign Language
Akan Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

No data available
ak

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

kha
aka

ISO 639 2/B

kha
aka

ISO 639 3

kha
aka

ISO 639 6

kha
aka

Glottocode

khas1269
akan1251

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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-

Language Morphological Typology

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Khasi and Akan Alphabets

Khasi and Akan Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Khasi and Akan. In Khasi Alphabets there are 23 letters while in Akan Alphabets there are 21 letters. To learn Khasi and Akan languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Khasi and Akan languages. The Khasi phonology consist Khasi vowels and Khasi consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Khasi greetings vs Akan greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Khasi and Akan are Most Spoken Languages.

All Khasi and Akan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Khasi and Akan dialects. Various dialects of Khasi and Akan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Khasi are spoken in different Khasi Speaking Countries whereas Akan Dialects are spoken in different Akan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Khasi vs Akan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Khasi dialects include: Bhoi, Nonglung. Akan dialects include: Asante , Akuapem. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Khasi and Akan Speaking population

Khasi and Akan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Khasi and Akan languages can be compared. The total count of Khasi and Akan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Khasi language is 0.01 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Akan language is 0.17 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Khasi and Akan on Khasi vs Akan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Khasi and Akan Language Codes

Khasi and Akan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Khasi and Akan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.