Countries
Meghalaya
Ghana, Ivory coast
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
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
-
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 in
Alphabets
2321
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
610
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1416
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
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
Dialect 1
Bhoi
Asante
Where They Speak
-
Ghana
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.009,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Nonglung
Akuapem
Where They Speak
-
Ghana
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Fante
Where They Speak
-
Ghana
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.001,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.84 million11.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.17 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.84 million11.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
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
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
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language
Akan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
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
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-