Akan is the most widely spoken indigenous language of Ghana and belongs to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family. Its major dialects are well known by their own names: Asante Twi and Akuapem Twi in the interior, and Fante along the coast, all largely mutually intelligible. Native speakers number around ten million, and millions more Ghanaians use Akan as a second language, making it the country's main lingua franca in markets, radio and popular music. Related varieties are spoken over the border in Ivory Coast. Akan is a tonal language with vowel harmony and is written in the Latin alphabet, with an official orthography used in schools and publishing. Ghanaian English borrows freely from it, and Akan day names such as Kofi and Ama have travelled far beyond Ghana.
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