Twi
Dialect of the Akan language in Ghana / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Twi ([tɕᶣi]) is a variety of the Akan language spoken in southern and central Ghana by several million people, mainly of the Akan people, the largest of the seventeen major ethnic groups in Ghana. Twi has about 4.4 million speakers.[1]
Twi | |
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Akwapem Twi | |
Pronunciation | [tɕᶣi] |
Native to | Ghana |
Region | Ashanti Region |
Ethnicity | |
Native speakers | 4.4 million (2013)[1] |
Dialects | |
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Official status | |
Official language in | Ashanti Region |
Recognised minority language in | |
Regulated by | Akan Orthography Committee |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | tw |
ISO 639-2 | twi |
ISO 639-3 | twi (see [aka] for Ethnologue description) |
Glottolog | akan1251 |
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Twi is a common name for mutually intelligible former literary dialects of the Akan language of Bono, Asante and Akuapem.[2][3][4] Akuapem, as the first Akan variety to be used for Bible translation, has become the prestige dialect as a result.[5] It is also spoken by the people of southeastern Côte d'Ivoire.[6][3][7] It generally subsumes the following dialects: Ahafo, Akuapem, Akyem, Asante, Asen, Dankyira and Kwawu.[8]