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- Akan_names abstract "The Akan people of Ghana and the Ivory Coast frequently name their children after the day of the week they were born and the order in which they were born.This tradition is shared throughout West Africa due to Akan Influence, from Benin/Dahomey (Fon) and Togo (Ewe), to the Ga, to other West Africans and throughout the African diaspora. For example, in Jamaica the following day names have been recorded: MondayFriday, Cuffee; Saturday, Quamin; Sunday, Quashee. English translations of these names were used in the United States during the nineteenth century; Robinson Crusoe's Friday may be conceptually related.Most Ghanaians have at least one name from this system. Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was so named for being born on a Saturday (Kwame) and being the ninth born (Nkrumah). Also, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Atta Annan, was so named for being born on a Friday (Kofi) as one of a pair of twins (Atta).In the official orthography of the Twi language, the Ashanti versions of these names as spoken in Kumasi are as follows. The diacritics on á a̍ à represent high, mid, and low tone (tone does not need to be marked on every vowel), while the diacritic on a̩ is used for vowel harmony and can be ignored. (Diacritics are frequently dropped in any case.) Variants of the names are used in other languages, or may represent different transliteration schemes. The variants mostly consist of different affixes (in Ashanti, kwa- or ko- for men and a- plus -a or -wa for women). For example, among the Fante, the prefixes are kwe- and e-, respectively. Akan d̩wo is pronounced something like English Joe, but there do appear to be two sets of names for those born on Tuesday.".
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- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Ashanti_language.
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- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Category:Akan_given_names.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Category:Akan_language.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Category:Surnames_of_Akan_origin.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Day_name.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink English_language.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Ewe_(people).
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- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Family_name.
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- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Fon_(people).
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- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Ghana.
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- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Jamaica.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Jamaican.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Jamaican_Patois.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Kofi_Annan.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Kumasi.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Kwame_Nkrumah.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Names_of_the_days_of_the_week.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Ndyuka_people.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Robinson_Crusoe.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Secretary-General.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Secretary_(title).
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Surname.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Togo.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Transliteration.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink Twi.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink United_Nations.
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
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- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLinkText "''Kodwe,'' Monday's child".
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLinkText "Akan day name".
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLinkText "Akan names".
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLinkText "Akan names#Day names".
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ashanti and Akan-day names and Ashanti and Akan-surnames".
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ashanti birthday names".
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLinkText "Day Names".
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLinkText "Kwaku".
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLinkText "day name".
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLinkText "giving names".
- Akan_names wikiPageWikiLinkText "the naming customs".
- Akan_names hasPhotoCollection Akan_names.
- Akan_names wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Akan_topics.
- Akan_names wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Clarifyme.
- Akan_names wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Names_in_world_cultures.
- Akan_names wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Akan_names subject Category:Akan_given_names.
- Akan_names subject Category:Akan_language.
- Akan_names subject Category:Surnames_of_Akan_origin.
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- Akan_names type Language.
- Akan_names type Article.
- Akan_names type Language.
- Akan_names comment "The Akan people of Ghana and the Ivory Coast frequently name their children after the day of the week they were born and the order in which they were born.This tradition is shared throughout West Africa due to Akan Influence, from Benin/Dahomey (Fon) and Togo (Ewe), to the Ga, to other West Africans and throughout the African diaspora. For example, in Jamaica the following day names have been recorded: MondayFriday, Cuffee; Saturday, Quamin; Sunday, Quashee.".
- Akan_names label "Akan names".
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- Akan_names sameAs Akan-voornamen.
- Akan_names sameAs Q415699.
- Akan_names sameAs Q415699.
- Akan_names wasDerivedFrom Akan_names?oldid=683887181.
- Akan_names isPrimaryTopicOf Akan_names.