Ashanti Twi is the most widely spoken of the dialects of the Akan language. For over a Quarter of a Century, American Language Services has worked with the Ghana language as well as hundreds of others from around the world. Use the form below to translate English to Akan (Twi) or Ewegbe GHANA LANGUAGE Understanding The Ghana Language & Providing Professional Ghana Interpreters, Translators and Transcriptionists American Language Services (AML-Global) understands the importance of working in the Ghana language. There are about 9 million Twi speakers, mainly in Ashanti Region, Ghana. These definitions and phrases are meant to introduce a non-Twi beginner to the spoken language.
Akuapem Twi was the first Akan dialect to be used for Bible translation, and became the prestige dialect as a result.
Twi (or Asante Twi) is a common name for two former literary dialects of the Akan language, Asante (Ashanti) and Akuapem, which are mutually intelligible. Twi (pronounced 'chwee' [ʨʷ i]) specifically Ashanti Twi is a language spoken in Ghana by about 7 million people. Ghana, officially called the Republic of Ghana, is a sovereign unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.Spanning a land mass of 238,535 km, Ghana is bordered by the Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, Togo in the east and the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean in the south.
It is one of the three dialects of the Akan language, the others being Akuapem Twi and Fante Twi, which in turn belongs to the Kwa language family.
Translate Ghanaian Languages. Akan is spoken by about 45 percent of Ghana’s population as a first language, and is also used as a second language by a large number of the remainder.