Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
Ghana
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
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.
  
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
Akan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ete-sen
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
meda ase
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
maadwo
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
maadwo
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
maaha
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
maakye
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
wae
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
Kafra
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
bye
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
Me doכ wo
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Asante
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00
  
13
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Akuapem
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00
  
10
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Fante
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00
  
15
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million
  
99+
1,051.00 million
  
2
Native Speakers
11.00 million
  
99+
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
Akan
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
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French Name
akan
  
chinois
  
German Name
Akan-Sprache
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Akan people
  
Han
  
Origin
15
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
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Branch
Not Available
  
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Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Akan
  
Standard Chinese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ak
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
aka
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
aka
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
aka
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
akan1251
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Akan and Chinese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Akan and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Akan and Chinese language. Akan word for "Hello" is ete-sen or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Akan Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Akan vs Chinese Difficulty
The Akan vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Akan Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Akan and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Akan and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Akan is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.