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Twi
Pronunciation	[tɕᶣi]
Native to	Ghana
Region	Ashanti Region
Ethnicity	Asante Akuapem Bono
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Kwa Potou–Tano Tano Central Tano Akan Twi
Standard forms	Asante Akuapem
Writing system	Latin
Official status
Regulated by	Akan Orthography Committee
Language codes
ISO 639-1	`tw`
ISO 639-2	`twi`
ISO 639-3	`twi` (see [aka] for Ethnologue description)
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Twi (/tʃwiː, twiː, tʃiː/;^[1]^[2] Twi: [tɕᶣi]) is the common name of the Akan literary dialects of Asante and Akuapem.^[3] Effectively, it is a synonym for 'Akan' that is not used by the Fante people. It is not a linguistic grouping, but more of a common name used by inland Akans as Akuapem Twi is more closely related to the Fante dialects than it is to Asante Twi. Aside from the Fante, other Akan groups such as the Nzema, Ahanta, Chakossi, Sefwi, and Baoulé, all classified under the Akan Bia languages, do not use Twi as the name of their dialects. ^[4] Twi generally subsumes the following Akan dialects: Ahafo, Akuapem, Akyem, Asante, Assin, Bono, Denkyira and Kwawu, which have about 4.4 million speakers in southern and central Ghana.^[5]^[6]^[7]

References

^ "Twi". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/OED/6964978785. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
^ "Twi". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 2025-05-03.
^ 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.
^ Dolphyne, Florence Abena (1986) The languages of the Akan peoples. Research review. Vol. 2 No. 1, Pages 1-22[1] University of Ghana.
^ Akan at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^ African 671, University of Wisconsin-Madison Students in. "About Akan (Twi)". UW Press Journals.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ Boaheng, Isaac (2021). "An Akan (Bono-Twi) Mother-Tongue Commentary on the Second Letter of John". Journal of Mother Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology.

External links

Twi edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikivoyage has a phrasebook for Twi.

Akan at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
Language resources at LangMedia (Five College Center for World Languages)
Akan basic course
Bibliography of structural properties of the Twi language at WALS Online (The World Atlas of Language Structures)
Akuapem Twi to English Parallel Text Dataset

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