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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Ghana, Ivory coast

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

Ghana

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Africa

1.6 Minority Language

Benin, United States of America

1.7 Regulated By

Akan Orthography Committee

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • 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.

1.9 Similar To

Not Available

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

21
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

10
Rank: 7 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

16
Rank: 6 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

ete-sen

3.2 Thank You

meda ase

3.3 How Are You?

wo ho te sɛn?

3.4 Good Night

maadwo

3.5 Good Evening

maadwo

3.6 Good Afternoon

maaha

3.7 Good Morning

maakye

3.8 Please

wae

3.9 Sorry

Kafra

3.10 Bye

bye

3.11 I Love You

Me doכ wo

3.12 Excuse Me

mepa wo kyɛw

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Asante

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Ghana

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

9,000,000.00
Rank: 13 (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Akuapem

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Ghana

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

9,000,000.00
Rank: 10 (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Fante

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Ghana

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

1,900,000.00
Rank: 15 (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

11.00 million
Rank: 51 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.17 %
Rank: 47 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

11.00 million
Rank: 45 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Akan

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Not Available

5.3.4 French Name

akan

5.3.5 German Name

Akan-Sprache

5.4 Pronunciation

Not Available

5.5 Ethnicity

Akan people

6 History

6.1 Origin

15

6.2 Language Family

Niger-Congo Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Not Available

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Akan

6.3.3 Language Position

104
Rank: 66 (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Macrolanguage

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

ak

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

aka

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

aka

7.3 ISO 639 3

aka

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

akan1251

7.6 Linguasphere

No data available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Not Available

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Know Alphabets in Akan

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Akan Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Akan Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Akan. Akan phonology gives Akan vowels and Akan consonants. There are 10 vowels and 16 consonants in Akan language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Akan is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Akan language is given in detail in this section.

All Akan countries

Want to explore all Akan countries? About Akan language serves you with all Akan Speaking Countries. Countries that use Akan as official language are called as Akan countries.

  • Countries that use Akan as their National Language are: Ghana.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Akan as second language are: Akan is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Akan greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Akan Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Akan language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Akan language.Learn Akan greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: ete-sen
  • Thank you: meda ase
  • Good Morning: maakye
  • Good Evening: maadwo
  • Good Afternoon: maaha

All Akan Language Codes

Get to know all Akan language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Akan Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.