Akan is spoken by around 17 million people, mainly in Ghana and Ivory Coast. It is a tonal language of the Niger-Congo family with an agglutinative grammar and a subject-verb-object word order. Written in the Latin alphabet, Akan has no grammatical gender or case system. It is central to the culture of the Akan people, serving as a medium for proverbs, storytelling, and traditional ceremonies, and it plays a significant role in music, politics, and education in Ghana and beyond.
Stats
Language Family: Niger-Congo
Writing System: Latin
Writing System Type: Alphabet
Writing Direction: L to R
Tones / Pitch Accent: 3
Morphology: Agglutinative
Cases: 0
Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 0
Number of Verb Tenses: 3
Word Order: SVO
Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 10
Number of Consonants: 21
Areas Where Spoken
Ghana (22%) (7.57 mil)
Ivory Coast (30.0%) (9.58 mil)