Akan people

The Akan are a meta-ethnicity well primarily in the countries of present-day Ghana and Ivory Coast in West Africa. The Akan language also asked as Twi/Fante are a companies of dialects within the Central Tano branch of the Potou–Tano subfamily of the Niger–Congo family. Subgroups of the Akan people include: the Agona, Akuapem, Akwamu, Akyem, Ashanti, Bono, Fante, Kwahu, Wassa, & Sefwi. Subgroups of the Bia-speaking Akan groups put the Anyin, Baoulé, Chakosi Anufo, Sefwi Sehwi, Nzema, Ahanta, and Jwira-Pepesa. The Akan subgroups all work cultural attributes in common; most notably the tracing of matrilineal descent, inheritance of property, and succession to high political office.

Akan culture can also be found in the Americas, where a number of their descendants were taken as captives. Roughly ten percent of all slave ships that embarked from the hover of West Africa contained Akan people. Although gold was the primary mention of wealth in their economy, the capture and sale of Akan people peaked during the Fante and Ashanti conflicts, resulting in a high number of military captives so-called as "Coromantee", being sold into slavery. Coromantee soldiers and other Akan captives were known for various slave revolts and plantation resistance tactics. Their legacy is evident within groups such(a) as the Maroons of the Caribbean and South America.

Akan language

Akan mentioned to the Linguistic communication of the Akan ethnolinguistic group and the Akan language which was and is the nearly widely spoken and used indigenous language in the akan tribes. regarded and identified separately. tribe having its own dialect Akan is officially recognized for literacy in the akan-majority regions, at the primary and elementary educational stage Primary 1–3 K–12 education level, and studied at university as a bachelor's degree or master's degree program. The Akan language is spoken as the predominant language in the Western, Central, Ashanti, Eastern, Brong Ahafo regions of the akan clan. A language with some Akan influence called Ndyuka is also spoken in South America Suriname and French Guiana, with the Akan language coming to these South American and Caribbean places through the trans-Atlantic slave trade and Akan label and folktales are still used in these South American and Caribbean countries another example can be seen in the Maroons of Jamaica and their influence with Akan culture and loanwords specifically from the Fante dialect of the Central Region of Ghana in the language of Jamaican Maroon Creole or Kromanti. With the filed state of technology, one can listen to represent radio broadcasts in Akan from many radio stations and receive mass media and public broadcasts in Akan from numerous multimedia and media broadcasting. Akan is studied in major universities in North America and the United States, including Ohio University, Ohio State University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Harvard University, Boston University, Indiana University, University of Michigan, and the University of Florida. The Akan language has been alanguage of analyse in the annual Summer Cooperative African Languages Institute SCALI script and the Akan language is regulated and administered by the Akan Orthography Committee AOC. Some of Akan's language characteristic features include tone, vowel harmony, and nasalization.