Countries
Countries
India
Ghana, Ivory coast
Total No. Of Countries
12
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
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Benin, United States of America
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
Akan Orthography Committee
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- 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
Marathi
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5221
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1610
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3616
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
Namaskar
ete-sen
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
meda ase
How Are You?
kaso assa?
wo ho te sɛn?
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
maadwo
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
maadwo
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
maaha
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
maakye
Please
Chike
wae
Sorry
Maf kor
Kafra
Bye
Adeus
bye
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
Me doכ wo
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
mepa wo kyɛw
Dialects
Dialect 1
Antruz
Asante
Where They Speak
Goa
Ghana
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.009,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Akuapem
Where They Speak
-
Ghana
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Fante
Where They Speak
-
Ghana
How Many People Speak
7.001,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million11.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.17 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million11.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
Akan
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Twi, Fante
French Name
konkani
akan
German Name
Konkani
Akan-Sprache
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[ˈaːkã]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Akan people
History
Origin
1209 A.D.
15
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kokani
Akan
Language Position
23104
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Akan Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
No data available
ak
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
aka
ISO 639 2/B
kok
aka
ISO 639 3
kok
aka
ISO 639 6
kok
aka
Glottocode
goan1235
akan1251
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-