Twi (language)
| Twi | ||
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Spoken in |
Ghana | |
| speaker | approx. 2.8 million Asante Twi, 555,000 Akuapem Twi | |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | one of the national languages of Ghana | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
partly |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
twi |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Twi [ t͜ɕʷi ] ( German also: Tschi ) is an Akan language . Twi is spoken by around 3.4 million people, mainly in Ghana , where it is also one of the official languages.
Within the Twi, the dialects Aschanti-Twi (also: Asante-Twi, Aschanti , Asante) with around 2,800,000 and Akuapem -Twi (also: Akwapem, Twi, Akuapim, Akwapi) with around 555,000 speakers are distinguished.
The missionary Johann Gottlieb Christaller (1827–1895) was one of the early European explorers of the language .
Well-known Twi speakers
- Nana Abrokwa , musician
- Kwame Nkrumah , first President of Ghana
- Ignatius Kutu Acheampong , former President of Ghana
- Otto Addo , former soccer player
- Akwasi Afrifa , former President of Ghana
- Kofi Annan , Former Secretary General of the United Nations (UN)
- Gerald Asamoah , former soccer player
- Albert Adu Boahen , Ghanaian historian and politician
- Abédi Pelé , former footballer
- Samuel Kuffour , former soccer player
- John Agyekum Kufuor , former President of Ghana
- Sarcody , musician, see Konvict Muzik # artist (selection)
- Anthony Yeboah , former soccer player
- Asamoah Gyan , footballer
literature
- William Nketia: Twi for Ghana. Reise Know-How Verlag, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89416-346-1 .
- Samuel Gyasi Obeng: African Anthroponymy. An ethnopragmatic and norphophonological study of personal names in Akan and some African societies. LINCOM Europe, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-89586-431-5 . (LINCOM studies in anthropology 8)
- Paul FA Kotey: Let's learn Twi. Africa World Press, Trenton / NJ 2000, ISBN 0-86543-854-4 .
- JE Redden, N. Owusu: Twi Basic Course. Hippocrene, New York 1995, ISBN 0-7818-0394-2 . (Reprint of the 1963 edition)
- FA Dolphyne: A Comprehensive Course in Twi (Asante) for the Non-Twi Learner. Ghana University Press, Accra 1996, ISBN 9964-30-245-2 .
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ * Keyword: Tschi language. Online in: Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon, Volume III, Leipzig 1920, p. 552.
- ↑ a b Ethnologue