Akan jezik (ISO 639-3: aka), jezik, odnosno makrojezik istoimene podskupine, šire skupine centralnih tano jezika, kojim govori 8,300,000 ljudi (2004 SIL) u Gani. Ovaj makrojezik sastoji se od individualnih jezika fanti [fat] i twi [twi] svaki sa nekoliko dijalekata.
Postoji mnogi dijalekti: agona, anomabo fanti, abura fanti, gomua; ahafo, akuapem (akwapem twi, akuapim, akwapi, twi), akyem (akyem bosome), asante (ashante twi, asanti, achanti), asen, dankyira, fante (fanti, mfantse) i kwawu (kwahu)[1].
Glasovi
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Literatura
- Dolphyne, F.A. 1988. The Akan (Twi-Fante) Language: Its Sound Systems and Tonal Structure. Ghana Universities Press, Accra.
- Ladefoged, P. 1964. A Phonetic Study of West African Languages. Cambridge University Press.
- Schachter, P. and Fromkin, V.A. 1968. A Phonology of Akan: Akuapem, Asante, Fante (UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 9). Phonetics Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Stewart, J.M. 1967. Tongue root position in Akan vowel harmony. Phonetica 16: 185-204.
- Welmers, W.E. 1946. A Descriptive Grammar of Fanti (Language Dissertation 39). Linguistic Society of America, Philadelphia.