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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 ...
Christaller published his scientific grammar of the Twi language in 1875. [2] [3] The Dictionary of the "Asante and the Fante Language—called Twi" (two volumes) was published in 1881 which by all accounts was the masterpiece of his literary career. [2] [3] This dictionary was a lexicon of Akan socio-cultural and religious customs.
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]
Christaller's A Grammar of the Asante and Fante language called Tshi (1875) and A Dictionary of the Asante and Fante language called Tshi (1881), written with reference to Akuapem, remain the definitive academic grammar and dictionary of Twi, despite the dialects' orthography, vocabulary, and grammar having changed in the century since their ...
Twi is the common name of the Akan without Fante. [2] [3] 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. [4]
Bono, also known as Abron, Brong, and Bono Twi, is a dialect of the Akan language that is spoken by the Bono people and mutually intelligible with Fante, Asante, Akuapem. [2] [3] Bono is spoken by approximately 1.2 million people in Ghana, primarily in the Bono Region, Bono East Region, and by over 300,000 in eastern Côte d'Ivoire.
Ashanti dialect or Asante, a literary dialect of the Akan language of southern Ghana; Ashanti Region, a region within Ghana; Ashanti (Crown Colony), a United Kingdom colony 1901–1957 in what is now Ghana; Ashanti (singer) (born 1980), American singer-songwriter and actress Ashanti, a 2002 album by Ashanti; Ashanti, an American film
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