Ga language

E155048

The Ga language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Ga people in and around Accra, the capital of Ghana.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Ga language canonical 15

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Kwa language
Niger–Congo language
language
basicWordOrder SVO
closelyRelatedTo Dangme language
country Ghana
ethnicGroup Ga people
family Niger–Congo languages
surface form: Niger–Congo
glottocode gali1262
glottologName Ga
hasApproximateSpeakers hundreds of thousands
hasConsonantInventory rich set of oral consonants
hasDialects rural Ga
urban Ga
hasGrammaticalFeature noun class remnants
prepositions rather than postpositions
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Akan language (moderate)
Ewe language (moderate)
hasOrthographyStandardizedBy Bureau of Ghana Languages
hasPhonologicalFeature tone
vowel harmony
hasStandardForm Accra-based standard Ga
hasStatus indigenous language of Ghana
hasSVOOrder true
hasVowelInventory multiple vowel qualities with length distinctions
isMinorityLanguageIn Benin
Togo
ISO639-1 gaa
ISO639-2 gaa
ISO639-3 gaa
languageBranch Ga–Dangme branch
languageFamilyBranch Kwa languages of southern Ghana
nativeName
primaryRegion Accra
recognizedAs one of the major Ghanaian languages
region West Africa
spokenIn Ghana
Greater Accra Region
subfamily Atlantic–Congo languages
surface form: Atlantic–Congo

Kwa
subgroup Ga–Dangme languages
surface form: Ga–Dangme
usedAs vernacular language in Accra
usedIn Ga festivals
Ga traditional choral music
local media in Accra
traditional Ga religion
usedInEducation some primary schools in Ghana
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (15)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kwa languages hasSubgroup Ga language
Ga people language Ga language
Dangme language closelyRelatedTo Ga language
Ga–Dangme languages hasPart Ga language
Ga-Dangme language Ga language
Homowo festival languageContext Ga language
Ga Bible language Ga language
kpanlogo dance hasLanguageContext Ga language
Ga-Adangbe traditionalLanguage Ga language
Ga-Dangme people language Ga language
West Africans speaksLanguage Ga language