Akan | |
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Akan | |
Native to | Ghana, Ivory Coast (Abron), Benin (Tchumbuli) |
Ethnicity | Akan people |
Native speakers | 32 million (2017) |
Latin (Twi alphabet, Fante alphabet) Twi Braille | |
Official status | |
Official language in | None. — Government-sponsored language of Ghana |
Regulated by | Akan Orthography Committee |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | ak |
ISO 639-2 | aka |
ISO 639-3 | aka – inclusive codeIndividual codes: abr – Abron dialectbqa – Tchumbulifat – Fante dialecttwi – Twiwss – Wasa |
Glottolog | akan1251 Akanic |
Akan is a language group spoken by related peoples in mainly Ghana and eastern Côte d'Ivoire. Akan belongs to the Kwa group of the Niger-Congo language family.[1]