Central Tano languages

Central Tano
Akan
Geographic
distribution		 Ghana, Ivory Coast
Linguistic classification Niger–Congo
Subdivisions
  • Bia
  • Akan languages
Glottolog cent2262[1]

The Central Tano or Akan languages are languages of the Niger-Kongo family (or perhaps the theorised Kwa languages[2]) spoken in Ghana and Ivory Coast by the Akan people.

All have written forms in the Latin script.

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Central Tano". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. ↑ Ameka, Felix K.; Dakubu, Mary Esther Kropp (2008). Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages. John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN 90-272-0567-1. , p. 4


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