Wikipedia — "Twi-Fante language"
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- Publication: English Wikipedia
- Date: undated (live page; accessed 2026-09-05)
- URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twi-Fante_language
- Type: tertiary; neutral stance
- Accessed: 2026-09-05
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- Classification: Akan (academically "Twi-Fante") belongs to the Niger–Congo family, Atlantic–Congo branch, Volta–Congo, Kwa languages, Potou–Tano group, Tano subgroup.
- Geography: dominant across the southern half of Ghana, with speaker communities extending into Ivory Coast and Togo.
- Speakers: ~8.9 million first-language speakers (Ethnologue, cited as of 2013) plus ~1 million second-language speakers; about 44% of Ghanaians are native speakers, and about 80% of Ghana's population speaks Akan as a first or second language.
- Standards: three major literary standards — Asante Twi, Akuapem Twi, and Fante — mutually intelligible, with a unified orthography adopted in 1978 after previously distinct spelling systems.
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- Speaker figures dated to 2013 per the article's own citation; not independently checked against a more recent census or Ethnologue edition.