Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Ghana
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ete-sen
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
meda ase
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
maadwo
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
maadwo
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
maaha
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
maakye
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
wae
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
Kafra
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
bye
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Me doכ wo
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Asante
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00
  
13
Dialect 2
Akuapem
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00
  
10
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Fante
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
11.00 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Akan
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Russki
  
French Name
akan
  
russe
  
German Name
Akan-Sprache
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Akan people
  
Russians
  
Origin
15
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Akan
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ak
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
aka
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
aka
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
aka
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
akan1251
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Akan and Russian Speaking population
Akan and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Akan and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Akan and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Akan language is 0.17 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. 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 Russian on Akan vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Akan and Russian Language Codes
Akan and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Akan and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.