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A government sign in English in Accra. Ghana is a multilingual country in which about eighty languages are spoken. [7] Of these, English, which was inherited from the colonial era, is the official language and lingua franca. [8] [9] Of the languages indigenous to Ghana, Akan is the most widely spoken in the south. [10]
Ghanaian English is a variety of English spoken in Ghana. English is the official language of Ghana , and is used as a lingua franca throughout the country. [ 1 ] English remains the designated language for all official and formal purposes even as there are 11 indigenous government-sponsored languages used widely throughout the country.
After independence, Ghana separated itself from the British West African pound, which was the currency of the British colonies in the region. The new republic's first independent currency was the Ghanaian pound (1958–1965). In 1965, Ghana decided to leave the British colonial monetary system and adopt the widely accepted decimal system.
It is confined to a smaller section of society than other West African creoles, and is more stigmatized, [2] perhaps due to the importance of Twi, an Akan dialect, [4] often spoken as lingua franca. [5] Other languages spoken as lingua franca in Ghana are Standard Ghanaian English (SGE) and Akan. [6]
[2] [3] It is principally spoken in the central and southern regions of Ghana as well as in settlements in other regions in western Ghana, Ivory Coast, as well as in Liberia, Gambia and Angola. [ 1 ] Fante is the common dialect of the Fante people , whose communities each have their own subdialects , namely Agona, Anomabo, Abura and Gomoa, [ 4 ...
Map of Ghana's ethno-linguistic areas. English is the official language of Ghana. [177] [178] Additionally, there are eleven languages that have the status of government-sponsored languages: Akan languages (Asante Twi, Akuapem Twi, Fante, Bono which have a high degree of mutual intelligibility, and Nzema, which is less intelligible with the ...
Afrikaans; Anarâškielâ; العربية; Aragonés; Asturianu; تۆرکجه; বাংলা; Беларуская; Brezhoneg; Català; Čeština; Cymraeg; Dansk ...
The pound was the currency of Ghana between 1958 and 1965. It was subdivided into 20 shillings, each of 12 pence. Until 1958, Ghana used the British West African pound, after which it issued its own currency. In 1965, Ghana introduced the first cedi at a rate of £1 = ₵2.40, i.e., ₵1 = 100d.