Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Ghana
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
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.
  
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Akan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ete-sen
  
Hai
  
Thank You
meda ase
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
maadwo
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
maadwo
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
maaha
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
maakye
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
wae
  
sila
  
Sorry
Kafra
  
maaf
  
Bye
bye
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Me doכ wo
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Asante
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00
  
13
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Akuapem
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 3
Fante
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00
  
15
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million
  
99+
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
11.00 million
  
99+
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
Akan
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
French Name
akan
  
malais
  
German Name
Akan-Sprache
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Akan people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
15
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Akan
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ak
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
aka
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
aka
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
aka
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
akan1251
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Akan and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Akan and Malaysian language. Akan word for "Hello" is ete-sen or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Akan Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Akan vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Akan vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Akan Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Akan and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Akan is 44 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.