Asante dialect

{{short description|Dialect of Akan in Ghana}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Asante

| nativename = Asah

| states = Ashanti

| ethnicity = Ashanti

| speakers = {{sigfig|3.820000|2}} million

| date = 2013

| ref = {{e26|aka|Akan}}

| familycolor = Niger-Congo

| fam2 = Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Volta–Congo

| fam4 = Kwa

| fam5 = Potou–Tano

| fam6 = Tano

| fam7 = Central Tano

| fam8 = Akan

| agency = Akan Orthography Committee

| isoexception = dialect

| glotto = asan1239

| glottorefname = Asante

| script = Latin, Braille

}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/aka|title=Akan|website=Ethnologue|access-date=2019-12-25}}{{cite book |last1=Schacter |first1=Paul |last2=Fromkin |first2=Victoria |title=A Phonology of Akan: Akuapem, Asante, Fante |publisher=University of California Press |location=Los Angeles |year=1968 |page=3}}{{cite book |last1=Arhin |first1=Kwame |title=A Profile of Brong Kyempim: Essays on the Archaeology, History, Language and Politics of the Brong Peoples of Ghana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R9gJAQAAIAAJ&q=twi |publisher=Afram |date=1979}} 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.

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