Central Tano languages

Central Tano
Central Tano
Akan
Geographic; distribution	Ghana, Ivory Coast
Linguistic classification	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta–Congo Kwa Potou–Tano Tano Central Tano; ; ; ; ; ;
Subdivisions	Bia; Akan;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	cent2262

The Central Tano or Akan languages are a pair of dialect clusters of the Niger-Congo family (or perhaps the theorised Kwa languages^[1]) spoken in Ghana and Ivory Coast by the Akan people.

There are two or three languages, each with dialects that are sometimes treated as languages themselves:^[2]^[3]

All have written forms in the Latin script.

References

^ Ameka, Felix K.; Dakubu, Mary Esther Kropp (2008). Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages. John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN 978-90-272-0567-4., p. 4
^ Stewart, John M. 1989. Kwa. In Bendor-Samuel, John (ed.), The Niger-Congo Languages, 216-245. University Press of America & SIL. p. 225.
^ Dolphyne, Florence Abena (1986) The languages of the Akan peoples. Research review. Vol. 2 No. 1, Pages 1-22[1] University of Ghana. p. 15.
^ "The languages of the Akan peoples". d.lib.msu.edu. pp. 12, 18. Retrieved 2025-04-12.

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Central Tano
Akan
Geographic distribution	Ghana, Ivory Coast
Linguistic classification	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta–Congo Kwa Potou–Tano Tano Central Tano
Subdivisions	Bia Akan
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	`cent2262`