Akan

[ ah-kahn ]

noun

, plural A·kans, (especially collectively) A·kan

1. a language of the Kwa branch of Niger-Congo spoken in much of Ghana and parts of the Ivory Coast.
2. a member of any of various Akan-speaking peoples, including the Ashanti and Fanti.

Akan

/ ˈɑːkɑːn /

noun

1. -kan-kans a member of a people of Ghana and the E Côte d'Ivoire
2. the language of this people, having two chief dialects, Fanti and Twi, and belonging to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family

Example Sentences

A video shared by local media showed MPs in the dimly lit chamber chanting: "Dumsor, dumsor", which means power outage in the local Akan language.

From BBC

“The world has discovered that there’s a new way to approach music … that hits you, gives you a new emotion, gives you new feelings, gives you a new experience,” says Akan of Afrobeats Intelligence.

From Seattle Times

The cardinal referred to the fact that in one of Ghana's languages, Akan, there is an expression "men who act like women and women who act like men".

From BBC

Ghana has for several years been experiencing power shortages popularly known as "dumsor", which means on and off in the Akan language.

From BBC

Large marimo are now thought to be exclusively found in Lake Akan, and as seen from the data, even there they have become threatened.

From Science Daily