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<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Akan language

<b>Description:</b>

Akan is a language group spoken by related peoples in mainly Ghana and eastern Côte d'Ivoire. All Akan languages are mutually intelligible. The main languages comprise:
The Bureau of Ghana Languages has compiled a unified orthography of 20,000 words.
The adinkra symbols are old ideograms.
The language came to South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica: Kromanti, with the slaves. 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 (for a boy) or Akosua (girl) born on a Sunday. In Jamaica and Suriname the Anansi spider stories are well known.
According to work done by P K Agbedor of CASAS, Mfantse and Twi (together known as Akan) belong to Cluster 1 of the speech forms of Ghana. Clusters are defined by the level of mutual intelligibility. The Abron(Bono) and Wasa dialects are considered part of this cluster.
Cluster 1 comprises:
Cluster 1 may better be named r-Akan (mainly Akuapem, Akyem, Fante, Wasa, Bono, Asen, Akwamu, Twi, Kwahu spoken mainly in Ghana, parts of Togo) which do not<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=1519357 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Location of Akan Language Speakers</h2>
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<tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>
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<tr><td>Detailed Description:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_aka_detail-2 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_aka_detail-2 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Genesis Translation:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_aka_gen-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_aka_gen-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>2</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_aka_gen-2 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_aka_gen-2 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>3</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_aka_gen-3 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_aka_gen-3 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Grammar:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_aka_morsyn-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_aka_morsyn-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>2</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_aka_morsyn-2 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_aka_morsyn-2 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Orthography:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_aka_ortho-3 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_aka_ortho-3 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>2</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_aka_ortho-2 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_aka_ortho-2 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Phonology:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_aka_phon-3 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_aka_phon-3 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Universal Declaration Of Human Rights:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_aka_undec-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_aka_undec-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>2</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_aka_undec-2 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_aka_undec-2 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td>3</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_aka_undec-3 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_aka_undec-3 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/ghana Ghana]</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>

<b><i>Countries: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/ghana Ghana]
<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/africa Africa]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>aka</td></tr>

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<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]

  [[Niger-Congo Group]]

    [[Atlantic-Congo Group]]

      [[Volta-Congo Group]]

        [[Kwa Volta-Congo Group]]

          [[Nyo Kwa Group]]

            [[Potou-Tano Group]]

              [[Tano Group]]

                [[Central Tano Group]]

                  [[Akan Group]]

                    <b>[[Akan Language]]</b>

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