Asante dialect

Asante
Asante
Asah
Native to	Ashanti
Ethnicity	Ashanti people
Native speakers	3.8 million (2013)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Kwa Potou–Tano Tano Central Tano Akan Twi Asante; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Adinkra Nkyea
Official status
Regulated by	Akan Orthography Committee
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	asan1239
IETF	tw-asante

Asante, also known as Ashanti, Ashante, or Asante Twi, is one of the principal members of the Akan dialect continuum. It is one of the three mutually intelligible dialects of Akan which are collectively known as Twi, the others being Bono and Akuapem. There are 3.8 million speakers of Asante, mainly concentrated in Ghana and southeastern Cote D'Ivoire, and especially in and around the Ashanti Region of Ghana.

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