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The Asante, also known as Ashanti in English (/ ə ˈ ʃ ɑː n t iː / ⓘ), are part of the Akan ethnic group and are native to the Ashanti Region of modern-day Ghana.Asantes are the last group to emerge out of the various Akan civilisations.
Asante, also known as Ashanti, Ashante, or Asante Twi, is one of the principal dialects of the Akan language. It is one of the three literary dialects of Akan, the others being Akuapem and Fante . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] There are over 3.8 million speakers of the Asante dialect, mainly concentrated in Ghana and southeastern Cote D'Ivoire , [ 2 ] and ...
My First Akan Dictionary Online Akan (Twi, Fanti) Dictionary; Twi Word of the Day and Articles; Akan Language Resources; The Bible in Twi; The Quran in Twi Language; Poem translated into Twi; Watch Twi Music Videos; Prayer in Asante used by Ghanaians of the Baha'i Faith; Open Twi Project, a project to bring Asante to software.
David Asante (23 December 1834 – 13 October 1892) was a philologist, linguist, translator and the first Akan native missionary of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society.
Christaller, J. G., (1881) “A Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tschi (Chwee, Twi) With a Grammatical Introduction and appendices on the Geography of the Gold Coast and Other Subjects,” Basel, 2nd rev. ed., edited by J. Schweizer in 1893, published as “A Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Languages Called Tshi (Twi),” Basel
Asante may refer to: Asante people, an ethnic group in Ghana; Asante Empire; Asante (name) Asante dialect, a dialect of the Akan languages; Asante Kotoko S.C., a Ghanaian professional association football club; Asante (album), 1974 jazz album by McCoy Tyner; Asanté Technologies, a defunct networking equipment vendor
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 ...
The Asantehene is the title for the monarch of the historical Ashanti Empire as well as the ceremonial ruler of the Ashanti people today. The Ashanti royal house traces its line to the Oyoko (an Abusua, or "clan") Abohyen Dynasty of Nana Twum and the Oyoko Dynasty of Osei Tutu Opemsoo, who formed the Empire of Ashanti in 1701 and was crowned Asantehene (King of all Asante). [1]