See also Akan languages

Akan is the name that has been adopted by Ghanaians today and was given to them by the Arabs. It comprises of: A language family is a group of languages related by descent from a common proto-language. ... Map showing the distribution of Niger-Congo languages The Niger-Congo languages constitute one of the worlds major language families, and Africas largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers, and number of distinct languages. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... In the classification of African languages, Volta-Congo is the major branch (in terms of number of languages) of the Niger-Congo phylum. ... The Kwa languages are spoken in the south-eastern part of Côte dIvoire, in Ghana, Togo and Benin, and the south-Western corner of Nigeria. ... Twi language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Akan language(s) edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the most famous Akan speaker. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is an international standard for language codes. ... Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... The Unicode Standard, Version 5. ... Twi language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Akan language(s) edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the most famous Akan speaker. ...

• Twi - Both the Akuapem and Asante (Ashanti) dialects
• Fante (Fanti, Mfantse)

The Bureau of Ghanaian Languages has compiled a unified orthography of 20,000 words. Twi (pronounced chwee ) is a language spoken in Ghana by about 7 million people. ... Fante is one of the languages spoken in Ghana. ... The orthography of a language specifies the correct way of writing in that language. ...

The adinkra symbols are old ideograms. Adinkra are symbols common in Western African societies that represent concepts or aphorisms. ... A Chinese character. ...

The language came to South America, notably Suriname, with the slaves. The descendants of escaped slaves in the interior of Suriname still use a form of this language, including the 'day name' custom of naming children the day of the week that they were born e.g. Akwasi (for a boy) or Akosua (girl) born on a Sunday. In Suriname also the Anansi spider stories are well known. South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... Slave redirects here. ... The Akan people frequently name their children after the day of the week they were born and the order in which they were born. ... Anansi is one of the most important characters of West African lore. ...

According to work done by P K Agbedor of CASAS, Mfantse and Twi (together known as Akan) belong to Cluster 1 of the speech forms of Ghana. Clusters are defined by the level of mutual intelligibility. The Abron(Bono) and Wasa dialects are considered part of this cluster.

Cluster 1 comprises:

• Akan (Niger-Congo – Atlantic Congo – Volta Congo – Kwa – Nyo – Potou-Tano – Tano – Central)
• Abron (Niger-Congo – Atlantic Congo – Volta Congo – Kwa – Nyo – Potou-Tano – Tano – Central – Akan)
• Wasa (Niger-Congo – Atlantic Congo – Volta Congo – Kwa – Nyo – Potou-Tano – Tano – Central – Akan).

Cluster 1 may better be named r-Akan (mainly Akuapem, Akyem, Fante, Wasa, Bono, Asen, Akwamu, Twi, Kwahu spoken mainly in Ghana, parts of Togo) which do not explicitly have the letter “l” in their original proper use. On the other hand l-Akan, refers to the Akan cluster comprising Nzema, Baule, and other dialects spoken mainly in the Ivory Coast, whose use of the letter “r” in proper usage is very rare.

External links

• kasahorow Akan Dictionary

Akan language(s) edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia