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About Akan Language



Countries
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Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast 0

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

National Language
Ghana 0

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries 0

Speaking Continents
Africa 0

Minority Language
Benin, United States of America 0

Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee 0

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.
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Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets
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Alphabets in
Akan-Alphabets.jpg#200 0

Alphabets
21 3

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
10 7

How Many Consonants
16 6

Scripts
Latin 0

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal 0

Hard to Learn
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Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 11

Greetings
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Hello
ete-sen 0

Thank You
meda ase 0

How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn? 0

Good Night
maadwo 0

Good Evening
maadwo 0

Good Afternoon
maaha 0

Good Morning
maakye 0

Please
wae 0

Sorry
Kafra 0

Bye
bye 0

I Love You
Me doכ wo 0

Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Asante 0

Where They Speak
Ghana 0

How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00 13

Dialect 2
Akuapem 0

Where They Speak
Ghana 0

How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00 10

Dialect 3
Fante 0

Where They Speak
Ghana 0

How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00 15

Total No. Of Dialects
3 3

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
11.00 million 51

Speaking Population
0.17 % 47

Native Speakers
11.00 million 45

Second Language Speakers
Not Available 0

Native Name
Akan 0

Alternative Names
Not Available 0

French Name
akan 0

German Name
Akan-Sprache 0

Pronunciation
Not Available 0

Ethnicity
Akan people 0

History
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Origin
15 0

Language Family
Niger-Congo Family 0

Subgroup
Not Available 0

Branch
Not Available 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
No early forms 0

Standard Forms
Akan 0

Language Position
104 66

Signed Forms
Not Available 0

Scope
Macrolanguage 0

Code
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ISO 639 1
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ISO 639 2
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ISO 639 2/T
aka 0

ISO 639 2/B
aka 0

ISO 639 3
aka 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
akan1251 0

Linguasphere
No data available 0

Types of Language
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Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available 0

Language Morphological Typology
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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.

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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.

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