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Lingua Franca: What Is The Official Language Of Ghana?
Mar 26, 2024
Ghana Language – Africa can boast of over a million languages, the idea of lingua franca still revolves around the question ‘ who colonized them?’ Language in the continent is a thing of tribe culture and region, but beyond that, it is also a thing of colonialism as well.
Ghana is a multilingual nation just like most other countries in Africa and just as different sources give different figures for the number of Languages in Ghana as spoken by the different tribes, there can only be one official language understood by all the tribal groups, and that is the colonial English language and lingua franca. In Ghana, there are about eighty (80) languages which are diverse in all regions of Ghana.
There are nine (9) government-sponsored languages spoken in Ghana supported by the Bureau of Ghana languages which were established in 1951. At the period when Ghanaian languages were used for primary education, these languages were used which belongs to the Niger-Congo language family.
Official Ghana Language(s) According to Ranks
Akan
This is part of the Kwa languages of the Niger-Congo region and also the most widely used with 45.3% of the ethnic group. The Akan is made up of four dialects, viz: Akuapem Twi, Asante Twi, Fante and Nzema. However, among these dialects only three are officially recognized; Akuapem Twi, Asante Twi and Fante.
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