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A map of Ghana's ethno-linguistic areas. 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]
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 ...
Logba Tota village in Ghana's Volta Region. The Ghana–Togo Mountain languages, formerly called Togorestsprachen (Togo Remnant languages) and Central Togo languages, form a grouping of about fourteen languages spoken in the mountains of the Ghana–Togo borderland. They are part of the Kwa branch of the Niger–Congo family.
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. ...
Map showing the distribution of Niger–Congo languages. Light green is the Kwa subfamily. The Kwa languages , often specified as New Kwa , are a proposed but as-yet-undemonstrated family of languages spoken in the south-eastern part of Ivory Coast , across southern Ghana , and in central Togo .
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 ]
Clickable map showing the traditional language families, subfamilies and major languages spoken in Africa ... Regional language in Ghana: Tshiluba: Niger–Congo ...
The Bureau of Ghana Languages is an agency of the government of Ghana that promotes Ghanaian languages, including publication of materials in them. It focuses on 11 languages: Akuapem Twi , Asante Twi , Ewe , Mfantse , Ga , Dangme , Nzema , Dagbani , Dagaare , Gonja and Kasem .