Asante Twi

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Asante Twi is a major dialect of the Akan language spoken predominantly by the Asante people in Ghana and widely used in education, media, and everyday communication.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Asante Twi canonical 13

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Akan language variety
dialect
closelyRelatedTo Akuapem Twi
Fante people
surface form: Fante
ethnicGroup Akan people
Asante people
hasAlternativeName Asante
surface form: Asante Akan

Ashanti Twi
hasDialectsOrVarieties rural Asante Twi
urban Asante Twi
hasGrammaticalFeature noun class remnants in pronouns and agreement
serial verb constructions
subject–verb–object word order
hasLiteraryForm Bible translations
newspapers
novels
poetry
hasPhonologicalFeature advanced tongue root vowel harmony
tone
hasStandardizedOrthography true
ISO639-3Code aka
languageBranch Kwa languages
languageFamily Niger–Congo languages
languageGroup Akan language
surface form: Akan languages

Potou–Tano languages
surface form: Central Tano languages
macrolanguage Akan
primaryCountry Ghana
region Ashanti Region
Brong-Ahafo Region
surface form: Brong-Ahafo area
spokenBy millions of speakers in Ghana
status major regional language in Ghana
widely used indigenous language in Ghana
subdivisionOf Akan language
taughtAt primary schools in Ghana
secondary schools in Ghana
universities in Ghana
usedAs lingua franca in parts of southern Ghana
usedFor basic education literacy programs
local literature
music lyrics in Ghana
radio broadcasting
religious services in Ghana
television broadcasting
usedIn broadcast media in Ghana
education in Ghana
everyday communication in Ghana
print media in Ghana
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (13)

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

Akan hasDialects Asante Twi
Ashanti Region hasLanguage Asante Twi
Akan language hasDialects Asante Twi
Akan language hasStandardVariety Asante Twi
Twi hasDialect Asante Twi
Ashanti language Asante Twi
Central Tano hasLanguage Asante Twi
Fante language closelyRelatedTo Asante Twi
Akuapem Twi closelyRelatedTo Asante Twi
Asantehene languageOfCourt Asante Twi
Ashanti people language Asante Twi