Asante dialect

Asante
Asah
Native toAshanti
EthnicityAshanti
Native speakers
3.8 million (2013)[1]
Latin, Braille
Official status
Regulated byAkan Orthography Committee
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologasan1239

Asante, also known as Ashanti, Ashante, or Asante Twi, is one of the principal dialects of the Akan language. It is one of the three literary dialects of Akan, the others being Akuapem and Fante.[2][3][4] There are over 3.8 million speakers of the Asante dialect, mainly concentrated in Ghana and southeastern Cote D'Ivoire,[2] and especially in and around the Ashanti Region of Ghana.

A man speaking Asante Twi

References

  1. ^ Akan at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
  2. ^ a b "Akan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-12-25.
  3. ^ Schacter, Paul; Fromkin, Victoria (1968). A Phonology of Akan: Akuapem, Asante, Fante. Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 3.
  4. ^ Arhin, Kwame (1979). A Profile of Brong Kyempim: Essays on the Archaeology, History, Language and Politics of the Brong Peoples of Ghana. Afram.


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