Asante Twi

{{short description|Dialect of Akan in Ghana}} {{Infobox language | name = Asante Twi | nativename = ''Asah'' | states = Ashanti | ethnicity = Ashanti | speakers = {{sigfig|3.820000|2}} million | date = 2013 | ref = <ref>{{e26|aka|Akan}}</ref> | familycolor = Niger-Congo | fam2 = Atlantic–Congo | fam3 = Volta–Congo | fam4 = Kwa | fam5 = Potou–Tano | fam6 = Tano | fam7 = Akan | fam8 = Twi-Fante | fam9 = (core) | fam10 = Asante-Akyem-Kwahu dialect | agency = Akan Orthography Committee | isoexception = dialect | glotto = asan1239 | glottorefname = Asante | script = Latin, Braille }} {{infobox ethnonym||people=Asantefoɔ|language=Asante Twi|country=Asanteman}} '''Asante Twi''', also known as '''Ashanti''', '''Ashante''', or '''Asante''', is one of the principal varieties of the Twi-Fante language. As the variety spoken by the Asante people (formerly known as Ashanti), is one of the three literary standards of Twi-Fante, the others being Akuapem Twi and Fante.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/aka|title=Akan|website=Ethnologue|access-date=2019-12-25}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite book |last1=Schacter |first1=Paul |last2=Fromkin |first2=Victoria |title=A Phonology of Akan: Akuapem, Asante, Fante |publisher=University of California Press |location=Los Angeles |year=1968 |page=3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Arhin |first1=Kwame |title=A Profile of Brong Kyempim: Essays on the Archaeology, History, Language and Politics of the Brong Peoples of Ghana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R9gJAQAAIAAJ&q=twi |publisher=Afram |date=1979}}</ref> There are over 3.8 million speakers of Asante, mainly concentrated in Ghana and southeastern Cote D'Ivoire,<ref name=":0" /> and especially in and around the Ashanti Region of Ghana. thumb|A man speaking Asante Twi|center

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Category:Ashanti people Category:Akan language