Kwa

E617321

language family branch

Kwa is a major branch of the Niger-Congo language family that encompasses numerous languages spoken primarily in southern Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Togo, and neighboring West African countries.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Kwa canonical	2

Statements (56)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	language family branch ⓘ
classificationStatus	subject to ongoing scholarly debate ⓘ
continent	Africa ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Kwa languages ⓘ
hasSubgroup	Akanic NERFINISHED ⓘ Avatime–Nyangbo NERFINISHED ⓘ Central Tano NERFINISHED ⓘ Ga–Dangme ⓘ Gbe ⓘ Ka-Togo NERFINISHED ⓘ Na-Togo NERFINISHED ⓘ Nyo NERFINISHED ⓘ Potou–Tano NERFINISHED ⓘ Tano NERFINISHED ⓘ
includesLanguage	Ahanta NERFINISHED ⓘ Aja NERFINISHED ⓘ Akan NERFINISHED ⓘ Akebu NERFINISHED ⓘ Anii NERFINISHED ⓘ Anyin NERFINISHED ⓘ Avatime NERFINISHED ⓘ Baoulé NERFINISHED ⓘ Dangme NERFINISHED ⓘ Ewe NERFINISHED ⓘ Fante ⓘ Fon NERFINISHED ⓘ Ga NERFINISHED ⓘ Gbe languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Guang languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Gun ⓘ Ikposo NERFINISHED ⓘ Kposo NERFINISHED ⓘ Nyangbo NERFINISHED ⓘ Nzema NERFINISHED ⓘ Sehwi ⓘ Twi NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageBranchOf	Niger-Congo NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Niger-Congo language family NERFINISHED ⓘ
primaryRegion	Benin NERFINISHED ⓘ Côte d’Ivoire NERFINISHED ⓘ Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ Togo NERFINISHED ⓘ southern Ghana NERFINISHED ⓘ
region	West Africa ⓘ
spokenIn	Benin NERFINISHED ⓘ Burkina Faso NERFINISHED ⓘ Côte d’Ivoire NERFINISHED ⓘ Ghana NERFINISHED ⓘ Liberia NERFINISHED ⓘ Nigeria ⓘ Togo NERFINISHED ⓘ
subfamilyOf	Niger-Congo language family NERFINISHED ⓘ
typologicalFeature	mostly tonal languages ⓘ predominantly SVO word order ⓘ rich noun class or gender remnants in some branches ⓘ
writingSystems	Latin script ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

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

Dangme language → subfamily → Kwa ⓘ

Fante language → hasLanguageFamily → Kwa ⓘ