Central Tano languages

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The Central Tano or Akan languages are a pair of dialect clusters 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 and East-central Ivory coast (Bono))
  • Bia (primarily in Ivory Coast and Western Ghana)

All have written forms in the Latin script.

References

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  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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