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- Akan_language abstract "Akan /əˈkæn/, also known as Twi [tɕɥi] and Fante, is an Akan language that is the principal native language of Akan lands in Ghana, spoken over much of the southern half of that country, by about 58% of the population, and among 30% of the population of Ivory Coast.[citation needed] 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 (AOC) 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, and the Guang languages.The Akan Orthography Committee has compiled a unified orthography of 20,000 words. The adinkra symbols are old ideograms.The language came to the Caribbean and South America, notably in Suriname spoken by the Ndyuka and in Jamaica by the Jamaican Maroons known as Coromantee, with enslaved people from the region. The descendants of escaped slaves in the interior of Suriname and the Maroons in Jamaica still use a form of this language, including Akan naming convention, in which children are named after the day of the week on which they are born, e.g. Akwasi/Kwasi (for a boy) or Akosua (girl) born on a Sunday. In Jamaica and Suriname the Anansi spider stories are well known.".
- Akan_language iso6391Code "ak".
- Akan_language iso6392Code "aka".
- Akan_language iso6393Code "aka".
- Akan_language languageFamily Atlantic%E2%80%93Congo_languages.
- Akan_language languageFamily Kwa_languages.
- Akan_language languageFamily Potou%E2%80%93Tano_languages.
- Akan_language languageRegulator Akan_Orthography_Committee.
- Akan_language spokenIn Benin.
- Akan_language spokenIn Ghana.
- Akan_language spokenIn Ivory_Coast.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink englishtshiasant00evaniala.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink ak.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink mdp.39015005280261.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink twi.htm.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink akan-language-resources.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink akan-twi-language-resources.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink akanasante.html.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink Content.php?page=Twi.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink Akan.aspx.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink nkyea.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink www.vibeghana.com.
- Akan_language wikiPageID "1519357".
- Akan_language wikiPageRevisionID "606174746".
- Akan_language agency Akan_Orthography_Committee.
- Akan_language date "2007".
- Akan_language ethnicity Akan_people.
- Akan_language fam Atlantic–Congo_languages.
- Akan_language fam Central_Tano_languages.
- Akan_language fam Kwa_languages.
- Akan_language fam Potou%E2%80%93Tano_languages.
- Akan_language fam Potou–Tano_languages.
- Akan_language familycolor "Niger-Congo".
- Akan_language hasPhotoCollection Akan_language.
- Akan_language iso "ak".
- Akan_language iso "aka".
- Akan_language lc "abr".
- Akan_language lc "bqa".
- Akan_language lc "fat".
- Akan_language lc "twi".
- Akan_language lc "wss".
- Akan_language ld Abron_dialect.
- Akan_language ld Fante_dialect.
- Akan_language ld "Tchumbuli".
- Akan_language ld "Twi".
- Akan_language ld "Wasa".
- Akan_language name "Akan".
- Akan_language nation "None.".
- Akan_language nation "— Government-sponsored languages of Ghana".
- Akan_language nativename "Twi, Fante".
- Akan_language notice "IPA".
- Akan_language script Ghanaian_braille.
- Akan_language script Latin_script.
- Akan_language speakers "million".
- Akan_language states Benin.
- Akan_language states Ghana.
- Akan_language states Ivory_Coast.
- Akan_language wordnet_type synset-language-noun-1.
- Akan_language subject Category:Akan_language.
- Akan_language subject Category:Languages_of_Ghana.
- Akan_language type Abstraction100002137.
- Akan_language type Communication100033020.
- Akan_language type Language106282651.
- Akan_language type Niger%E2%80%93CongoLanguages.
- Akan_language type Language.
- Akan_language type Language.
- Akan_language type Language.
- Akan_language type InformationEntity.
- Akan_language comment "Akan /əˈkæn/, also known as Twi [tɕɥi] and Fante, is an Akan language that is the principal native language of Akan lands in Ghana, spoken over much of the southern half of that country, by about 58% of the population, and among 30% of the population of Ivory Coast.[citation needed] 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. ".
- Akan_language label "Akan (langue)".
- Akan_language label "Akan language".
- Akan_language label "Akan-Sprachen".
- Akan_language label "Język akan".
- Akan_language label "Lenguas akánicas".
- Akan_language label "Lingua akan".
- Akan_language label "Língua akan".
- Akan_language label "Акан".
- Akan_language label "لغة أكانية".
- Akan_language label "アカン語".
- Akan_language label "阿坎语".
- Akan_language sameAs Akanština.
- Akan_language sameAs Akan-Sprachen.
- Akan_language sameAs Lenguas_akánicas.
- Akan_language sameAs Akan_(langue).
- Akan_language sameAs Lingua_akan.
- Akan_language sameAs アカン語.
- Akan_language sameAs 아칸어.
- Akan_language sameAs Język_akan.
- Akan_language sameAs Língua_akan.
- Akan_language sameAs m.02hw_03.
- Akan_language sameAs Mx4rvVjt9ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA.
- Akan_language sameAs Q28026.
- Akan_language sameAs Q28026.
- Akan_language sameAs Akan_language.
- Akan_language wasDerivedFrom Akan_language?oldid=606174746.
- Akan_language isPrimaryTopicOf Akan_language.
- Akan_language name "Akan".
- Akan_language name "Twi, Fante".