Atlantic-Congo · ISO 639-3 aka · ak
Akan Language Twi
Akan is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken by about 11 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Akan is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Akan language
Akan (Twi) is spoken by about 11 million people. It belongs to the Atlantic-Congo language family and, more precisely, to the Kwa Volta-Congo group within the Kwa Volta-Congo branch.
Where is Akan spoken?
Akan is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Ghana (13 million).
Akan is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Ghana.
Writing system and status
Akan is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Ewe, Fon, Abron, Baoulé, Ci Gbe, Defi Gbe and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 ak, ISO 639-3 aka.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.