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Fante translation of the Book of Mormon; note the use of the Latin epsilon in the word N'AHYƐMU.. Fante (Fanti:), also known as Fanti, Fantse, or Mfantse, is one of the three literary dialects of the Akan language, along with Asante and Akuapem (collectively known as Twi), with which it is mutually intelligible.
opete( archaic but preserved by the maroons, now replaced by John Canoe, a Fante slaveseller. Contemporary Jamaicans use the term John Crow to mean vulture and as an insult to mean a traitor or evil person.) "vulture" [7] Paki Akan apakyi calabash [16] Patu Akan Patu "owl" [7] Poto-poto Yorùbá, universally West African "mud", "muddy" [6 ...
"Oborɔnyi fitaa," meaning "white foreigner" refers to White people, "fitaa" is the Akan word for the color "white". "Obibini-borɔnyi," meaning "black -foreigner" is an amusing (and acceptable) term for a very light-skinned African or an African who has been heavily influenced by foreign cultures.
The land the Fante reached was initially called Adoakyir by its existing inhabitants, which the Fante called "Etsi-fue-yifo" meaning people with bushy hair. The Fante conquered these people and renamed the settlement Oman-kesemu, meaning large town. The name has evolved into the current name, Mankessim. The Fante settled the land as their first ...
Akan, part of the Kwa branch of the Niger–Congo family, is a dialect continuum, [15] but with regard to official status, only a few out of the many varieties of Akan are recognised: Fante, Asante Twi, Akuapem Twi. Taken as a whole, Akan is the most-widely spoken language in Ghana. [10]
Akuapem was chosen as a representative dialect for Akan because the missionaries at Basel felt it a suitable compromise. Christaller, who had himself learned Akyem but believed Akuapem was the better choice, [6] described the issue, and its solution, in the introduction to his 1875 Grammar of the Asante and Fante language called Tshi:
The name Aboakyer translates as "hunting for game or animal" in the [ [ Fante dialect]] as spoken by the people of the Central Region. The institution of the festival was to commemorate the migration of Simpafo (traditional name given to the people of Winneba).
Fante may refer to: . Fante people, an Akan people from central southern coast of West Africa; Fante dialect, a Niger-Congo language; Fante Confederacy, either the loose alliance of the Fante states in existence at least since the sixteenth century, or the Confederation formed in 1868 and dissolved in 1874