Twi: Difference between revisions

 

Twi is a common name for [[mutually intelligible]] former literary dialects of the Akan language of [[Asante dialect|Asante]] and [[Akuapem dialect|Akuapem]].<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Arhin|first1=Kwame|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R9gJAQAAIAAJ&q=twi|title=A Profile of Brong Kyempim: Essays on the Archaeology, History, Language and Politics of the Brong Peoples of Ghana|last2=Studies|first2=University of Ghana Institute of African|date=1979|publisher=Afram|language=en}}</ref><ref name="grammar-Asante">{{Cite book|last=Christaller|first=Johann Gottlieb|url=https://archive.org/details/agrammarasantea00chrigoog|title=A Grammar of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tshi Chwee, Twi Based on the Akuapem Dialect with Reference to the Other (Akan and Fante) Dialects|date=1875|publisher=Printed for the Basel evang. missionary society|others=Harvard University|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">Jane Garry, Carl R. Galvez Rubino, "Facts about the World's Languages: An Encyclopedia of the World's Major Languages, Past and Present", H.W. Wilson, USA, 2001, page 8</ref> Akuapem, as the first Akan variety to be used for Bible translation, has become the prestige dialect as a result.<ref name="omniglot">{{cite web|last1=Ager|first1=Simon|title=Omniglot|url=http://www.omniglot.com/writing/twi.htm|access-date=11 January 2015}}</ref> It is also spoken by the people of southeastern [[Côte d'Ivoire]].<ref name="ethnologue">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/aka|title=Akan|website=Ethnologue|language=en|access-date=2019-12-25}}</ref><ref name="grammar-Asante"/><ref name="dacb">{{Cite web|url=https://dacb.org/stories/ghana/christaller-j/|title=Christaller, Johannes Gottlieb|last=Ofosu-Appiah|first=L. H.|date=1998|website=Dictionary of African Christian Biography}}</ref>

 

== Phonology ==