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Central Tano languages

Central Tano
Akan
Geographic
distribution		Ghana, Ivory Coast
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologcent2262

The Central Tano or Akan languages are languages of the Niger-Congo family (or perhaps the theorised Kwa languages[1]) spoken in Ghana and Ivory Coast by the Akan people.

There are two or three languages, each with dialects that are sometimes treated as languages themselves:[2][3]

  • Akanic (primarily in Ghana)
    • core Akan (Asante, Akuapem and Fante dialects)
    • Bono dialect
    • Wasa
  • Bia (primarily in Ivory Coast and Western Ghana)

All have written forms in the Latin script.

  1. ^ Ameka, Felix K.; Dakubu, Mary Esther Kropp (2008). Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages. John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN 978-90-272-0567-4., p. 4
  2. ^ Stewart, John M. 1989. Kwa. In Bendor-Samuel, John (ed.), The Niger-Congo Languages, 216-245. University Press of America & SIL. p. 225.
  3. ^ Dolphyne, Florence Abena (1986) The languages of the Akan peoples. Research review. Vol. 2 No. 1, Pages 1-22[1] University of Ghana. p. 15.

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