page_title: Languages of Ghana
section_title: Akan (Fante, Asante Twi and Akuapem Twi)
hierarchical_section_title: Languages of Ghana / Government-sponsored languages / Akan (Fante, Asante Twi and Akuapem Twi)
caption_attribution_description: English: Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
context_page_description: Ghana is a multilingual country in which about eighty languages are spoken. Of these, English, which was inherited from the colonial era, is the official language and lingua franca. Of the languages indigenous to Ghana, Akan is the most widely spoken.
  Ghana has more than seventy ethnic groups, each with its own distinct language. Languages that belong to the same ethnic group are usually mutually intelligible. The Dagbanli and Mampelle languages of Northern Region, for instance, are mutually intelligible with the Frafra and Waali languages of the Upper West Region of Ghana. These four languages are of Mole-Dagbani ethnicity.
  Eleven languages have the status of government-sponsored languages: three Akan ethnic languages and two Mole-Dagbani ethnic languages. The others are Ewe, Dangme, Ga, Nzema, Gonja, and Kasem.
context_section_description: Akan, part of the Kwa branch of the Niger–Congo family, is a dialect continuum, but, with regard to official status, only three out of the many varieties of Akan are recognised:Fante, Asante Twi, Akuapem Twi . Taken as a whole, Akan is the most-widely spoken language in Ghana.
caption: A map of Ghana's ethno-linguistic areas.
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