2-656: Asante , also known as Ashanti , Ashante , or Asante Twi , is one of the principal dialects of the Akan language . It is one of the three literary dialects of Akan, the others being Akuapem and Fante . There are over 3.8 million speakers of the Asante dialect, mainly concentrated in Ghana and southeastern Cote D'Ivoire , and especially in and around the Ashanti Region of Ghana . This Ghana -related article
4-626: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Twi Twi ( [tษแถฃi] ) is the common name of the Akan literary dialects of Asante and Akuapem . Effectively, it is a synonym for 'Akan' that is not used by the Fante people . It is not a linguistic grouping, as Akuapem Twi is more closely related to Fante dialect than it is to Asante Twi. Twi generally subsumes the following Akan dialects: Ahafo, Akuapem, Akyem , Asante, Asen, Dankyira and Kwawu , which have about 4.4 million speakers in southern and central Ghana . The name "Twi"
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