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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.
Ga is spoken in south-eastern Ghana, in and around the capital Accra. It has relatively little dialectal variation. It has relatively little dialectal variation. Although English is the official language of Ghana, Ga is one of 16 languages in which the Bureau of Ghana Languages publishes material.
Pages in category "Languages of Ghana" The following 91 pages are in this category, out of 91 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Ewe (Eʋe or Eʋegbe [ɛβɛɡ͡bɛ]) [2] is a language spoken by approximately 5 million people in West Africa, mainly in Ghana and Togo. [1] Ewe is part of a group of related languages commonly called the Gbe languages. The other major Gbe language is Fon, which is mainly spoken in Benin.
GhaPE is a regional variety of West African Pidgin English [3] spoken in Ghana, predominantly in the southern capital, Accra, and surrounding towns. [2] 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 ...
Dagbani (or Dagbane), also known as Dagbanli or Dagbanle, is a Gur language spoken in Ghana and Northern Togo.Its native speakers are estimated around 1,170,000. [1] Dagbani is the most widely spoken language in northern Ghana, specifically among the tribes that fall under the authority of the King of Dagbon, known as the Yaa-Naa.
The Central Tano or Akan languages are a pair of dialect clusters of the Niger-Congo family (or perhaps the theorised Kwa languages [1]) spoken in Ghana and Ivory Coast by the Akan people. There are two or three languages, each with dialects that are sometimes treated as languages themselves: [ 2 ] [ 3 ]