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- Akan_language abstract "Akan /əˈkæn/ is a Central Tano language that is the principal native language of the Akan people of Ghana, spoken over much of the southern half of that country, by about 58% of the population, and among 30% of the population of Ivory Coast.Three dialects have been developed as literary standards with distinct orthographies: Asante, Akuapem (together called Twi), and Fante, which despite being mutually intelligible were inaccessible in written form to speakers of the other standards. In 1978 the Akan Orthography Committee (AOC) established a common orthography for all of Akan, which is used as the medium of instruction in primary school by speakers of several other Akan languages such as Anyi, Sehwi, Ahanta, and the Guang languages.The Akan Orthography Committee has compiled a unified orthography of 20,000 words. The adinkra symbols are old ideograms.The language came to the Caribbean and South America, notably in Suriname spoken by the Ndyuka and in Jamaica by the Jamaican Maroons known as Coromantee, with enslaved people from the region. The descendants of escaped slaves in the interior of Suriname and the Maroons in Jamaica still use a form of this language, including Akan naming convention, in which children are named after the day of the week on which they are born, e.g. Akwasi/Kwasi (for a boy) or Akosua (girl) born on a Sunday. In Jamaica and Suriname the Anansi spider stories are well known.".
- Akan_language iso6391Code "ak".
- Akan_language iso6392Code "aka".
- Akan_language iso6393Code "aka".
- Akan_language languageFamily Atlantic–Congo_languages.
- Akan_language languageFamily Kwa_languages.
- Akan_language languageFamily Potou–Tano_languages.
- Akan_language languageRegulator Akan_Orthography_Committee.
- Akan_language spokenIn Benin.
- Akan_language spokenIn Ghana.
- Akan_language spokenIn Ivory_Coast.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink d.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink englishtshiasant00evaniala.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink mdp.39015005280261.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink twi.htm.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink akan-language-resources.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink akan-twi-language-resources.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink Holy-Quran-Asante.pdf.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink akanasante.html.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink Akan.aspx.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink nwoma.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink nkyea.
- Akan_language wikiPageExternalLink www.vibeghana.com.
- Akan_language wikiPageID "1519357".
- Akan_language wikiPageLength "16137".
- Akan_language wikiPageOutDegree "88".
- Akan_language wikiPageRevisionID "693010693".
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Abron_dialect.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Adinkra_symbols.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Advanced_and_retracted_tongue_root.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Affricate_consonant.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Afrihili.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Ahanta_language.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Akan_Orthography_Committee.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Akan_names.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Akan_people.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Akuapem_people.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Allophone.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Alveolar_consonant.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Anansi.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Anyin_language.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Asante_dialect.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Atlantic–Congo_languages.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Baoulé_people.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Benin.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Bureau_of_Ghana_Languages.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Caribbean.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Akan_language.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Ghana.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Central_Tano_languages.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Coromantee.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Dorsal_consonant.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Downstep.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Fante_dialect.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Fricative_consonant.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Front_vowel.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Gemination.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Ghana.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Ghanaian_braille.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Gold_Coast_alphabet.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Guang_languages.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink ISO_639_macrolanguage.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Ideogram.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Ivory_Coast.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Jamaica.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Jamaican_Maroons.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Joseph_Hanson_Kwabena_Nketia.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Kwa_languages.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Labial_consonant.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Labialization.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Labio-palatalization.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Latin_script.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Maroon_(people).
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Mutual_intelligibility.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Nasal_consonant.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Ndyuka_people.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Nzema_language.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Orthography.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Palatalization_(phonetics).
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Phoneme.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Potou–Tano_languages.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Second_language.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Sehwi_language.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink South_America.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Stop_consonant.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Suriname.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Tone_terracing.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Twi.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Voice_(phonetics).
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Voicelessness.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLink Vowel_harmony.
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Akan (Ghana)".
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Akan (Twi)".
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Akan ethnic languages".
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Akan language".
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Akan".
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Asante twi".
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Asante".
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Asante-Akan".
- Akan_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ashante".