Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Ghana
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ete-sen
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
meda ase
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
maadwo
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
maadwo
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
maaha
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
maakye
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
wae
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
Kafra
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
bye
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Me doכ wo
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Asante
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00
  
13
Dialect 2
Akuapem
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00
  
10
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Fante
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
11.00 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
Akan
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
akan
  
népalais
  
German Name
Akan-Sprache
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Akan people
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
15
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Akan
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ak
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
aka
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
aka
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
aka
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
akan1251
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Akan and Nepali Speaking population
Akan and Nepali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Akan and Nepali languages can be compared. The total count of Akan and Nepali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Akan language is 0.17 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 %. 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 Akan and Nepali on Akan vs Nepali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Akan and Nepali Language Codes
Akan and Nepali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Akan and Nepali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.