Asante dialect

Asante
Asante
Asah
Native to	Ashanti
Ethnicity	Ashanti
Native speakers	3.8 million (2013)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta–Congo Kwa Potou–Tano Tano Central Tano Akan Core Akan Asante-Akyem-Kwahu dialect Asante; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin, Braille
Official status
Regulated by	Akan Orthography Committee
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	asan1239

Asante, also known as Ashanti, Ashante, or Asante Twi, is one of the principal varieties of the Akan language. As the variety of the Asante-Akyem-Kwahu dialect spoken by the Ashanti people, is one of the three literary standards of Akan, the others being Akuapem and Fante.^[2]^[3]^[4] There are over 3.8 million speakers of Asante, mainly concentrated in Ghana and southeastern Cote D'Ivoire,^[2] and especially in and around the Ashanti Region of Ghana.

A man speaking Asante Twi

References

^ Akan at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
^ ^a ^b "Akan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-12-25.
^ Schacter, Paul; Fromkin, Victoria (1968). A Phonology of Akan: Akuapem, Asante, Fante. Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 3.
^ Arhin, Kwame (1979). A Profile of Brong Kyempim: Essays on the Archaeology, History, Language and Politics of the Brong Peoples of Ghana. Afram.