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Asante Twi

Asante Twi, also known as Ashanti, Ashante, or Asante, is one of the principal varieties of the Twi-Fante language. As the variety spoken by the Asante people, is one of the three literary standards of Twi-Fante, the others being Akuapem Twi and Fante. There are over 3.8 million speakers of Asante, mainly concentrated in Ghana and southeastern Cote D'Ivoire, and especially in and around the Ashanti Region of Ghana.

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Asante Twi
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
PeopleAsantefoɔ
LanguageAsante Twi
CountryAsanteman

Asante Twi, also known as Ashanti, Ashante, or Asante, is one of the principal varieties of the Twi-Fante language. As the variety spoken by the Asante people (formerly known as Ashanti), is one of the three literary standards of Twi-Fante, the others being Akuapem Twi and Fante.234 There are over 3.8 million speakers of Asante, 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

References

  1. Akan at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
  2. "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.