Asante dialect

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Asante
Asah
Native to
Ashanti people
Native speakers
12 million (2024)[1]
?
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

Cote D'Ivoire,[5] and especially in and around the Ashanti Region of Ghana
.

Writing system

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

References

  1. ^ Akan at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Nkyea, Adinkra. "Adinkra Syllabary". Biswajit Mandal.
  3. ^ "Language Subtag Registry". Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 2017-06-12.
  4. ^ "Language Subtag Registration Form for 'asante'". Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 2017-06-12.
  5. ^ a b "Akan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-12-25.
  6. ^ Schacter, Paul; Fromkin, Victoria (1968). A Phonology of Akan: Akuapem, Asante, Fante. Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 3.
  7. ^ 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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