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Preferred term

akaAkan  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Akan, also known as Twi and Fante, is an Akan language that is the principal native language of Ghana, spoken over much of the southern half of that country, by about 52% of the population, and to a lesser extent across the border in eastern Côte d'Ivoire. Three dialects have been developed as literary standards with distinct orthographies, Asante, Akuapem (together called Twi), and Fante, which despite being mutually intelligible were inaccessible in written form to speakers of the other standards. In 1978 the Akan Orthography Committee established a common orthography for all of Akan, which is used as the medium of instruction in primary school by speakers of several other Akan languages such as Anyi, Sefwi, Ahanta as well as the Guang languages.

Entry terms

  • Akan language

ISO 639-1 code

  • ak

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • aka

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • aka

ISO 639-3 code

  • aka

Notation

  • aka

In other languages

  • akan

    French

  • Akan
  • Akan

    German

  • Akan-Sprachen
  • akan

    Italian

  • Lingua akan
  • akan

    Portuguese

  • Língua akan
  • akan

    Spanish

  • Idioma acano

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/aka

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