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	Akan Dictionary Project Ghana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Akan is one of the major languages of Ghana, spoken as mother tongue by 44% of the total population (Grimes 1996:275) in vast areas of the south of the country (Language Map), amounting to approximately 7 million people.
		Akan is the medium of instruction during the first three years of primary school in the area where it is mainly spoken and is one of the national languages taught as a subject for examination throughout the whole curriculum up to University.
		Akan was developed as a literary language in the second half of the 19th century, primarily through the initiative of the Basel Mission.
	www.unizh.ch /spw/afrling/akandic (595 words)

	Akan languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Akan languages are those languages belonging to the Kwa language family spoken in Ghana and the Côte d'Ivoire:
		The Akan language is one of the primary government-sponsored languages in Ghana.
		The language came to South America, notably Suriname, with the slaves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Akan_languages (406 words)

	Language, culture and development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Language barriers may however become an obstacle by not being recognized as resources and by not being used as instruments of development to the full extent of their communicative role in a society's life.
		Exoglossic language and educational policies (Heine 1979) inherited from the colonial era have contributed to perpetuate to this day a situation where access to innovative knowledge - and hence to social and economic development and to full participation in processes of democratization and decision-making - is linked to proficiency in a European language.
		Akan is one of the major languages of Ghana, spoken as mother tongue by 44% of the total population (Grimes 1992:263) in vast areas of the south of the country, amounting to approx.
	www.unizh.ch /spw/afrling/akandic/adetails.htm (4212 words)

	The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society
		Notably the languages are spoken in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Togo.
		Due to their geographical configuration and the numeric importance of speakers the creation of cross-border language groupings is a requirement in order to accelerate integration and the socio-economic, cultural and political development of sub-regions, where populations, often, already live with the sentiment of belonging to a family.
		- Literacy and orthographic codification of the Gur languages
	www.casas.co.za /activities.htm (3568 words)

	Sametalker
		One of the languages spoken by all the talkers was Swahili; the other languages were Akan, Haya, Kikuyu, and Luhya.
		The languages and countries of origin of the talkers are given in Table 1.
		Akan (7 million speakers) is one of the major languages of West Africa.
	oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~bond/Sametalker.htm (2016 words)

	Akan languages, alphabet and pronunciation
		The Akan languages are part of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo languages.
		Akan languages started to be written down, mainly in religious publications, by Danish, German and British missionaries during the 17th and 18th centuries.
		Akan languages are tonal with three tones: high, mid and low.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/akan.htm (269 words)

	AKAN (FANTSE) - ENGLISH DICTIONARY PROJECT
		As a language the Akan (Twi and Fantse) cluster belongs to the central subgroup of the Volta-Comoe group.
		The decision to launch the Akan dictionary project at this time is motivated by a convergence of a number of factors favoring a revitalization of the written use of major African languages in general, and of Akan in particular.
		Languages are not fixed and isolated entities but rather are collections of repertoires that have appropriate occasions for use depending on setting, topic, and social status of the respective speakers and listeners.
	www.cfiks.org /fantse_dictionary.htm (2690 words)

	NPS Ethnography: African American Heritage & Ethnography
		Creole languages combine the language spoken by those in power, or superstrate language, and the substrate language or the language spoken by those subordinated in a cross-cultural contact.
		The distinctive language exhibited by African Diasporans was sometimes noted in newspaper advertisements for recapture of runaways which often described their level of English proficiency, using terms such as “broken”, “thick” and “ bad” English as in this advertisement in the Virginia Gazette (Parks), Williamsburg, July 24 to July 31, 1746.
		The language of enslaved people began shifting first, from an African polyglot status in the first generations of arrival to a period of bilingualism between a pidgin and each person’s African mother tongue.
	www.cr.nps.gov /ethnography/aah/AAheritage/sysMeaning_furthRdg1.htm (1961 words)

	Study of Ghanaian Languages
		It is pointless to teach any of the vernacular languages as a subject in schools; for such insignificant and uncultivated local dialects can never become so flexible as to assimilate readily new words, and to expand their vocabularies to meet new situations....
		One other problem that confronts the teaching of these languages is the discontinuous manner in which certain languages are taught and examined from the lower to the higher rungs of the educational ladder.
		Although the study of Ghanaian languages as a subject was retained, this new emphasis led to a gradual neglect of Ghanaian languages.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /K-12/Study_16156.html (2889 words)

	Akan-ashanti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Historical accounts suggest that Akan groups migrated from the north to occupy the forest and coastal areas of the south as early as the thirteenth century.
		The relative homogeneity of Akan cultures, languages, and authority structures has not led to political unity; the most important conflicts of the Akan in precolonial and colonial times, for example, were with other Akan groups.
		The development of the Asante Empire, for example, was largely at the expense of the independence of the surrounding Akan, who were quick to reassert their autonomy, especially after 1896, when Asante was defeated and its king, the asantehen (king of Asante), was exiled to the Seychelles by the British.
	www.beepworld.de /members18/shika-gold/ashanti.htm (2175 words)

	National Commission On Culture
		The second is the Volta-Comoe family of languages, so-called because its members are distributed in the wide area bounded in the east by the Volta River of Ghana and in the west by the Comoe River of the Ivory Coast.
		These Western Ghanaian languages and the Akan languages are closely related to languages spoken in the forest and Southern Savanna lands of the Ivory Coast.
		It is estimated that about 50% of Ghana's population speak Akan as their first language, 16% speak Gur languages, 13% speak Ewe, 10% speak Ga-Dangme, and 11% belong to the Guan group of languages and a number of West African languages such as Mande and Senufo.
	www.ghanaculture.gov.gh /index1.php?linkid=240 (594 words)

	akan \| \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Akan, Hokkaido, a town in Akan District, Hokkaido
		Akan, gruppo etnico dell'Africa Occidentale, composto da diverse popolazioni (ad esempio gli Agni) diffuse in Costa d'Avorio ed in Ghana.
		akan to English akan to French akan to Italian akan to Spanish akan to Dutch akan to Portuguese akan to German akan to Japanese akan to Turkish akan to Arabic
	www.babylon.com /definition/akan/All (462 words)

	Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Texts and Sources: Languages
		Twi, is the language prevalent in the Gold Coast countries between the rivers Asini and Tanno on the W. and the Volta on the E., and extends even beyond this river; its southern boundary is the sea-coast, while the upper course of the Volta, and the Kong mountains are its northern limits.
		The Akan dialect is considered to be spoken purest (a) in Akem; but by its “dainty and affected mode of expression”.
		The Fante dialects are a branch of the Akan language, but are not acknowledged as pure by the Akans.
	www.ama.africatoday.com /languages_m.htm (2324 words)

	NEL chapter
		These languages are often regarded as rare or exotic, even though they are spoken by quite large populations and are of considerable importance in a global context, socially, economically and politically.
		French, English and Portuguese, all EU languages, dominate Sub-Saharan Africa as official languages, and there are good reasons to believe that EU countries are not unanimous in the policy to be pursued as regards the development and support of native African languages.
		For a language that basically uses the Latin alphabet, Vietnamese is undoubtedly one of the most complicated languages to write on a computer, due to the extensive use of diacritics.
	gandalf.aksis.uib.no /AcoHum/nel/NEL-chapter-final.html (17521 words)

	PanAfrLoc \| PanAfrLoc / Akan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Akan are in the south central, Ashanti province of Ghana.
		The Bureau of Ghanaian languages compiled a 20,000 word list of a unified orthography for Asante, Fante and Akuapem which is not in widespread use yet.
		A revision and update of this orthography, A Unified Orthography for the Akan Languages of Ghana and Ivory Coast — General Spelling Rules, CASAS 2003, is published by CASAS.
	www.bisharat.net /wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Akan (636 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Gur & Kwa
		You have reached the page on the Gur and Kwa sub-branches of the Niger-Kordofanian language family, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
		Gur and Kwa are two of the sub-branches of the Western Sudanic sub-branch of the Niger- Congo branch of the Niger-Kordofanian family of languages.
		Yoruba is spoken in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo; it is one of the 4 national languages of Nigeria.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/gurkwah.htm (1177 words)

	Akan Cultural Symbols Bibliogrphy
		Bellis, J. Archaeology and the culture history of the Akan of Ghana, a case study.
		Priesthood in context: A study of Akan traditional priesthood in dialogical relation to the pries-christology of the epistle to the Hebrews, and its implications for a relevant functional priesthood in selected churches among the Akan of Ghana.
		The proverb in the context of Akan rhetoric: A theory of proverb praxis.
	www.marshall.edu /akanart/akanartbiblio.html (1498 words)

	African Languages
		The African Languages and Literatures collection at the George A. Smathers Libraries includes language materials from dozens of languages spoken in sub-Saharan Africa.
		The collection is focused primarily on the languages taught at the University.
		The electronic version from SIL (Summer Institute of Language) of the original printed catalogue of over 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries, the Ethnologue database provides the Ethnologue Language Name Index, and the Ethnologue Language Family Index.
	web.uflib.ufl.edu /cm/africana/language.htm (472 words)

	Akan People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Much of what we know about ancient Akan customs comes to us in the form of oral histories which have survived for several hundred years.
		The rise of the early Akan centralized states can be traced to the 13th century, and is likely related to the opening of trade routes established to move gold throughout the region.
		It was not until the end of the 17th century, however, that the grand Asante Kingdom emerged in the central forest region of Ghana, when several small states united under the Chief of Kumasi in a move to achieve political freedom from the Denkyira.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/people/Akan.html (167 words)

	Akan Language Bibliography Page - Handbook of African Language Resources (ASC)(MSU)
		Christaller, J. Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language.
		"Folktales of Ghana (Folktales of the Akan of Ghana)." Manuscript.
		Warren, Dennis M. Bibliography and Vocabulary of the Akan (Twi-Fante)Language of Ghana.
	www.isp.msu.edu /AfrLang/Handbook/Akan-bib.htm (310 words)

	Accra Daily Mail - Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He said a research conducted by the CMA in May this year on Adom 106.3 and Peace 104.3 FM stations from May 18 to May 31 on the extent of English and Akan language usage showed that more English was spoken than Akan in their talk shows.
		Out of this total, 8,978 was English and Akan had as low as 1,854 recordings," the research found.
		It also found that panellists on the Show used 92 per cent of English language and used only 8 per cent of the Akan language.
	www.accra-mail.com /mailnews.asp?id=13506 (252 words)

	Akan Bibles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Akan (also known as Twi) is one of the indigenous languages of Ghana (Africa).
		Akan: Asante New Testament on audio cassette from Faith Comes by Hearing.
		Akan: Akuapem New Testament on audio cassette from Faith Comes by Hearing.
	www.ethnicharvest.org /bibles/akan.htm (78 words)

	Ghanaian Languages
		The language of the Asante and Akuapem is called 'Twi'.
		It is an official literary language with Wali.
		Also in Togo Population 1,125,900 in Ghana (1991 L. Vanderaa CRC); 8% of the population (1990 WA) Remarks Ga and Adangme are separate official literary languages.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/tribes/languages.php (1038 words)

	www.telelanguage.com
		TELELANGUAGE provides telephonic interpretation services in over 150 of the most commonly spoken languages and dialects in the world.
		If the language you need is not on our list, please let us know so that we can accommodate your needs.
		We are constantly updating our language list to accommodate the ever changing customer language requests.
	www.telelanguage.com /languages.cfm (65 words)

	dictionary - Languages - Abkhaz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population
		languages in the south), Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major
		common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population, German 32%, indigenous languages (Oshivambo, Herero, Nama)
	www.exxun.com /enpp/dy_languages_1.html (619 words)

	African Languages at IUB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Our instructors are native speakers who are trained in communicative language teaching and instruct courses at all levels.
		African languages can be used to fulfill IU’s language requirement, as an undergraduate minor, as well as an African Studies Certificate.
		Intensive language study during Summer Session 1: Intensive Elementary Twi and Intensive Elementary Swahili will be offered during Summer Session 1 (May 8 to June 14) at Indiana University, Bloomington.
	www.indiana.edu /~afrilang (219 words)

	Languages by Countries — Infoplease.com
		English 7% (official), Afrikaans is common language of most of the population and of about 60% of the white population, German 32%; indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama
		Russian language - Russian language, also called Great Russian, member of the East Slavic group of the Slavic...
		Change in progress: Nunavut means "our land" in Inuktitut, the language of Inuit.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0855611.html (1378 words)

	Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stockmal, Moates and Bond (Applied Psycholinguistics 21, 2000) found that adults can even discriminate between languages when they are produced by the same bilingual talker.
		investigation had to do with the familiarity of languages.
		The bilingual talkers who provided spoken language samples for this study spoke a home language and a language they had learned as part of formal education such as French, German or Russian.
	www.ohiou.edu /alta/stock.htm (205 words)

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