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Ga | |
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Gã | |
Pronunciation | [ɡã] |
Native to | Ghana |
Region | South-eastern Ghana, around Accra |
Ethnicity | Ga |
Native speakers | 745,000 (2016)[1] |
Latin (Ga alphabet) Ghanaian braille | |
Official status | |
Official language in | None. Government sponsored language. |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | gaa |
ISO 639-3 | gaa |
Glottolog | gaaa1244 |
Ga is a Kwa language spoken in Ghana, in and around the capital Accra, by the Ga people. There are also some speakers in Togo, Benin and Western Nigeria. It has a phonemic distinction between three vowel lengths.