Language · ISO 639-3 twi · tw
Twi Language twi
Twi is a language spoken by about 9.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Twi is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Twi
Language family
No family classification is available.
Writing system
Latin script
About the Twi language
Twi (twi) is spoken by about 9.0 million people, which makes it the 138th most spoken language in the world — just behind Serbian (9.0 million) and ahead of Catalan (8.5 million).
Where is Twi spoken?
Twi is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Ghana (9.0 million).
Twi is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Twi is written in the Latin script.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 tw, ISO 639-3 twi.
Frequently asked questions about Twi
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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.