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Inconsistencies[edit]

WHAT ABOUT THE WRITING SYSTEM? COULD WE INCLUDE THE ALPHABET? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.15.14.88 (talk) 21:52, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There are some inconsistencies and repetitions in this article. Firstly, on the Akan_languages page it lists Fante as separate from the two Twi dialects. Neither this page, nor Ethnologue, calls the language "Fante Twi". Fante has its own 3 letter code on SIL: [fat]. At the top of the article it says Fante is one of three Twi dialects, but on the bottom it says Twi is similar to Fante.

Also, although there are three names for Fante (also Fanti and Mfantse), it would be better to use one form to avoid confusion. This page has both Fante and Fanti. Wikipedia uses Fante and SIL uses Fanti. I would recommend using Fanti_language rather than Fante_language. - Parsa 22:51, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's spelled "Fante" in its own orthography. — kwami (talk) 05:13, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Inconsistencies 2[edit]

I second Mr Jomoa in flagging up inconsistencies in the article.

In Ghana, "Twi" is specifically the language of the Ashanti. Speakers of Fante don't call their language "Twi".

Fante/Akuapem/Twi is a single language in the technical linguistic sense that speakers of one variety can understand all; as with the similar situation with Danish/Swedish/Norwegian in Europe, there is no term in normal everyday use for the whole "language".

The (basically cultural) term "Akan" has been used to describe this language in linguistic literature. Not everybody who is culturally Akan speaks Fante or Akuapem or Twi however.

Incidentally, to native English speakers, the name of the language sounds like "Chee" not "Twee" as the article suggests. The initial consonant is much more like English "ch" than "t"; it is pronounced with simultaneous lip-rounding, which untrained native English speakers mostly can't hear at all.

David Eddyshaw — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.128.164.212 (talk) 20:23, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

esun "market"?[edit]

In Toki Pona, there is a word esun "store" that is supposed to be Akan. Does anyone know what the original word might have been? kwami (talk) 06:20, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Twi language template[edit]

If you are a native speaker of Twi then you can help translate this template into your own language:

{{User twi}} Edit

--Amazonien (talk) 20:51, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted, as it's synonymous with "User: ak". — kwami (talk) 00:43, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Suriname[edit]

Currently, the article says at the very bottom: “This Suriname-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.” Is there really any connection to Suriname, or could this be a mistake? Sascha (talk) 15:35, 17 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hoax tag unwarranted[edit]

I don't know if the hoax tag got attached as a result of the arguments about Fante above, or as a result of what's going on at the Ashantiland page, but Asante itself is a real dialect, as can be fairly easily verified.

Shouldn't the hoax tag be removed now? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Landscape repton (talk • contribs) 07:43, 12 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Asante dialect is real - however several details in the article were inserted as part of a wider independent Ashantiland hoax and are highly suspect. Specifically - "Official language in Ashanti City-State and the Ashanti City-State capital Kumasi", number of speakers, number of ethnic Ashanti people, "It is spoken in and around Kumasi, the capital of Ashanti and the former Ashanti Empire". Ghana is not present at all in the article body or infobox.Icewhiz (talk) 11:24, 12 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The number is definitely inflated, 9 million is about the estimate for Akan overall. I missed the infobox, that needs sorting out. But the claims in the body of the text are true, namely: Asante Twi is spoken widely in and around Kumasi, and Kumasi is the capital of the Ashanti Region and was the capital of the Asante Empire.

Though I'm wondering if rather than fixing up this page it wouldn't make more sense to merge it into the main Twi article? Landscape repton (talk) 12:02, 12 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have little input regarding a possible merge (It really depends on the particulars of the two dialects (how distinct are they as separate concepts?)). I would mention that this is spoken in the Ashanti region Ghana in preference (or at the least addition) to the former Ashanti Empire.Icewhiz (talk) 13:10, 12 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]