Akan
Americannoun
plural
Akans,plural
Akan-
a language of the Kwa branch of Niger-Congo spoken in much of Ghana and parts of the Ivory Coast.
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a member of any of various Akan-speaking peoples, including the Ashanti and Fanti.
noun
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a member of a people of Ghana and the E Côte d'Ivoire
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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
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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 • Mar. 1, 2024
“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 • Feb. 2, 2024
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 • Oct. 16, 2023
Located in present-day Ghana, Elmina was a fortified trading post from which the Portuguese traded copper, brass, and cloth with Africans for Akan gold.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Akim is considered the finest and purest of all the Akan dialects.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
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