Atlantic-Congo · ISO 639-3 gaa
Ga Language Gã
Ga is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken by about 820,000 people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Ga is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Ga language
Ga (Gã) is spoken by about 820,000 people, which makes it the 488th most spoken language in the world — just behind Western Frisian (845,100) and ahead of Tetum (820,000). It belongs to the Atlantic-Congo language family and, more precisely, to the Ga-Dangme group within the Kwa Volta-Congo branch.
Where is Ga spoken?
Ga is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Ghana (968,494).
Ga is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Ghana.
Writing system and status
Ga 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 Akan, Ewe, Fon, Abron, Baoulé, Ci Gbe and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 gaa.
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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.