Wasa dialect

Wasa
	Wasa
Native to	Ghana
Ethnicity	Wasa people
Native speakers	273,000 (2013)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Kwa Potou–Tano Tano Central Tano Akan Wasa; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Amenfi; Fianse;
Writing system	Latin
Official status
Regulated by	Akan Orthography Committee
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wss
Glottolog	wasa1244[2]

Wasa, also known as Wassa and Wasaw, is the common language of the Wasa people and a dialect of the Akan dialect continuum. Wasa is partially intelligible with the three principal Akan dialects of Fante, Asante, and Akuapem, the latter two collectively known as Twi, although it is most similar to the Abron dialect.[3] It is spoken by 273,000 in southwestern Ghana, mainly in the Wasa Amenfi West and Wasa Amenfi East districts. Its dialects include Amenfi and Fianse.[3]

References

Wasa at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wasa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
"Akan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-12-28.

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[1] Wasa at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)

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

[:0-3] "Akan". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-12-28.