Asante dialect

Asante
	Asante
Native to	Ashanti
Ethnicity	Ashanti people
Native speakers	3.8 million (2019)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Kwa Potou–Tano Tano Central Tano Akan Twi Asante; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Official status
Regulated by	Akan Orthography Committee
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	asan1239[2]
IETF	tw-asante[3][4]

Asante, also known as Ashanti, Ashante, or Asante Twi, is one of the principal members of the Akan dialect continuum, along with Bono and Akuapem, with which it is collectively known as Twi, and Fante, with which it is mutually intelligible.[5][6][7] There are 3.8 million speakers of Asante, mainly concentrated in Ghana and southeastern Cote D'Ivoire,[5] and especially in and around the Ashanti Region of Ghana.

References

Akan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Asante". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
"Language Subtag Registry". Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 2017-06-12.
"Language Subtag Registration Form for 'asante'". Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 2017-06-12.
"Akan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-12-25.
Schacter, Paul; Fromkin, Victoria (1968). A Phonology of Akan: Akuapem, Asante, Fante. Los Angeles: UC Press. p. 3.
Arhin, Kwame; Studies, University of Ghana Institute of African (1979). A Profile of Brong Kyempim: Essays on the Archaeology, History, Language and Politics of the Brong Peoples of Ghana. Afram.

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[1] Akan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Asante". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[iana-registry-3] "Language Subtag Registry". Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 2017-06-12.

[iana-asante-4] "Language Subtag Registration Form for 'asante'". Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 2017-06-12.

[:0-5] "Akan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-12-25.

[:1-6] Schacter, Paul; Fromkin, Victoria (1968). A Phonology of Akan: Akuapem, Asante, Fante. Los Angeles: UC Press. p. 3.

[7] Arhin, Kwame; Studies, University of Ghana Institute of African (1979). A Profile of Brong Kyempim: Essays on the Archaeology, History, Language and Politics of the Brong Peoples of Ghana. Afram.