Wasa dialect
Wasa, also known as Wassa and Wasaw, is the common language of the Wasa people and a dialect of the Akan dialect continuum. Wasa is partially intelligible with the three principal Akan dialects of Fante, Bono, Asante, and Akuapem, the latter three collectively known as Twi.[3][4] It is spoken by 273,000 in southwestern Ghana, mainly in the Wasa Amenfi West and Wasa Amenfi East districts. Its dialects include Amenfi and Fianse.[4]
| Wasa | |
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| Wasa | |
| Native to | Ghana |
| Ethnicity | Wasa people |
Native speakers | 273,000 (2013)[1] |
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| Official status | |
| Regulated by | Akan Orthography Committee |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wss |
| Glottolog | wasa1244[2] |
References
- Wasa at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wasa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Arhin, Kwame; Studies, University of Ghana Institute of African (1979). A Profile of Brong Kyempim: Essays on the Archaeology, History, Language and Politics of the Brong Peoples of Ghana. Afram.
- "Akan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
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