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Asante
Asah
Native toAshanti
EthnicityAshanti people

Native speakers

3.8 million (2013)[1]

Language family

Niger–Congo?

Writing system

Adinkra Nkyea[2]
Official status
Regulated byAkan Orthography Committee
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologasan1239
IETFtw-asante[3][4]

Asante, also known as Ashanti, Ashante, or Asante Twi, is one of the principal members of the Akan dialect continuum. It is one of the three mutually intelligible dialects of Akan which are collectively known as Twi, the others being Bono and Akuapem.[5][6][7] There are over 20 million speakers of the Asante language, mainly concentrated in Ghana and southeastern Cote D'Ivoire,[5] and especially in and around the Ashanti RegionofGhana.

Writing system[edit]

The Ashanti used Adinkra in their daily lives. Adinkra Nkyea is a writing system based on the Adinkra symbols[citation needed]

References[edit]

  1. ^ AkanatEthnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
  • ^ Nkyea, Adinkra. "Adinkra Syllabary". Biswajit Mandal.
  • ^ "Language Subtag Registry". Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 2017-06-12.
  • ^ "Language Subtag Registration Form for 'asante'". Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 2017-06-12.
  • ^ a b "Akan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-12-25.
  • ^ Schacter, Paul; Fromkin, Victoria (1968). A Phonology of Akan: Akuapem, Asante, Fante. Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 3.
  • ^ Arhin, Kwame (1979). A Profile of Brong Kyempim: Essays on the Archaeology, History, Language and Politics of the Brong Peoples of Ghana. Afram.

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