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Akan, also known as Twi and Fante, is an Akan language that is the principal native language of Akan lands in 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, Sefwi, 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 (for a boy) or Akosua (girl) born on a Sunday. In Jamaica and
Suriname the Anansi spider stories are well known. |
Names (more)[af] Twi[ak] Twi [am] ትዊኛ [ar] التوي [az] Tvi dili [bn] টোয়াই [bs] tvi [br] Twieg [bg] туи [ca] Twi [cs] twi [cy] Twi [da] Twi [de] Twi [el] Τούι [en] Asante dialect [eo] Akana lingvo [et] tvii [eu] twia [fo] twi [fa] توییایی [fi] twi [fr] Twi [ga] Tvís [gl] twi [gu] ટ્વાઇ [ha] Tiwiniyanci [sh] Twi jezik [he] טווי [hi] ट्वी [hr] twi [hu] twi [hy] Տուի [ia] twi [id] Bahasa Twi [is] Tví [it] Lingua twi [ja] トウィ語 [kn] ಟ್ವಿ [ks] توی [ka] თუი [kk] тви [km] ទ្វី [rw] Inyetuwi [ky] тви [ko] 트위어 [lo] ທວີ [lv] tvī [lt] tvi [ml] ട്വി [mr] ट्वी [mk] тви [mt] Twi [nl] Twi [nn] twi [nb] twi [no] Twi [or] ତ୍ୱି [pa] ਤ੍ਵਿ [pl] Język twi [pt] Língua twi [ps] توی [rm] twi [ro] twi [ru] Чви [sk] twi [sl] tvi [so] Tiwiyan [st] Twi [es] Idioma twi [sq] Twi [sr] Тви [sv] twi [ta] ட்வி [te] ట్వి [th] ทวิ [ti] ትዊ [tr] Tvi [tw] Twi [ug] تۋىچە [uk] тві [ur] توی [vi] Tiếng Twi [xh] Twi [yo] Twi [zh] 契維語 [zu] Twi |
Language type : Living
Technical notes
This page is providing structured data for the language Twi. |
ISO 639 CodesISO 639-1 : twISO 639-2B : twi ISO 639-2T : twi ISO 639-3 : twi Linked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/twihttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:twi http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-1/tw http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/twi More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: twiFreebase ISO 639-3 : twi GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |