Akuapem dialect

Akuapem
Akuapem
Native toGhana
EthnicityAkuapem people
Native speakers
626,000 (2013)[1]
Latin
Official status
Regulated byAkan Orthography Committee
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologakua1239
IETFtw-akuapem

Akuapem, also known as Akuapim, Akwapem Twi, and Akwapi, is one of the literary dialects of the Akan language, along with Asante (with which it is collectively known as Twi) and Fante, with which it is mutually intelligible.[2][3][4] There are 626,000 speakers of Akuapem, mainly concentrated in Ghana and southeastern Cote D'Ivoire.[2] It is the historical literary and prestige dialect of Akan, having been chosen as the basis of the Akan translation of the Bible.[4][5]

  1. ^ Akan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b "Akan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-12-25.
  3. ^ Schacter, Paul; Fromkin, Victoria (1968). A Phonology of Akan: Akuapem, Asante, Fante. Los Angeles: UC Press. p. 3.
  4. ^ a b Christaller, Johann Gottlieb (1875). A Grammar of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tshi Chwee, Twi Based on the Akuapem Dialect with Reference to the Other (Akan and Fante) Dialects. Basel evang. missionary society.
  5. ^ Ofosu-Appiah, L. H. (1998). "Christaller, Johannes Gottlieb". Dictionary of African Christian Biography.