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Akan (/ ə ˈ k æ n / [2]) is the largest language of Ghana, and the principal native language of the Akan people, spoken over much of the southern half of Ghana. [3] About 80% of Ghana's population speak Akan as a first or second language, [ 3 ] and about 44% of Ghanaians are native speakers .
Demon, Ghost, often written in Jamaican English as "duppy" [1] [2] Red Eye Akan Ani bere "envious – direct translation from Akan into English" Adrue Akan, Ewe(The Akwamu-Akan also conquered the Ewe and introduced to them concepts such as matrilineal inheritance, stools and of course Akan loanwords the Ewe were originally and still are ...
Akuapem's orthography was first developed by missionaries at the Gold Coast Basel Mission in 1842, [8] but its written history begins in 1853 with the publication of two grammars, the German Elemente des Akwapim Dialects der Odshi Sprache and the English Grammatical Outline and Vocabulary of the Oji Language with especial reference to the Akwapim Dialect, both written by Hans Nicolai Riis ...
A standardized writing and orthographic writing system for Akan was completed by the Akan Orthography Committee (AOC) in 1968. Akan languages started to be written down mainly in religious publications by Danish, German and British missionaries during the 17th and 18th centuries. The unified Akan orthography was created during the 1980s.
Ghanaian Pidgin English (GhaPE) [2] is a Ghanaian English-lexifier pidgin also known as Pidgin, Broken English, and Kru English (kroo brofo in Akan). GhaPE is a regional variety of West African Pidgin English [ 3 ] spoken in Ghana , predominantly in the southern capital, Accra , and surrounding towns. [ 2 ]
Twi is the common name of the Akan literary dialects of Asante and Akuapem. [1] Effectively, it is a synonym for 'Akan' that is not used by the Fante people.It is not a linguistic grouping, as Akuapem Twi is more closely related to Fante dialect than it is to Asante Twi. [2]
The various Akan groups speak various dialects of the Akan language, a language rich in proverbs, the use of proverbs is considered a sign of wisdom. Euphemisms are also very common, especially concerning events connected with death. The coastal Akans were the first to have relations with Europeans during the "Scramble for Africa".
Fante is the common dialect of the Fante people, whose communities each have their own subdialects, namely Agona, Anomabo, Abura and Gomoa, [4] all of which are mutually intelligible. Schacter and Fromkin describe two main Fante dialect groups: Fante 1, which uses a syllable-final /w/ and thus distinguishes kaw ("dance") and ka ("bite"); and ...