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Akan
Akan
English
Adjective
Akan (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the Akan people.
- Of or pertaining to the Akan language and other related languages.
Proper noun
Akan
- A people who inhabit Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
- The Niger-Congo language spoken by these people.
- A group of languages spoken in Ghana.
- A volcano in Hokkaido, Japan.
Derived terms
- Akan states
Translations
Niger-Congo language
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language group spoken in Ghana
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See also
- Wiktionary's coverage of Akan terms
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Akan language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Akan people on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Akan edition of Wiktionary
- ISO 639-1 code ak, ISO 639-3 code aka
- Ethnologue entry for Akan, aka. It's a family of related languages. The individual ones are:
Anagrams
akan
akan
Finnish
Noun
akan
- Genitive singular form of akka.
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Noun
akan
- Akan (West African language spoken mainly in Ghana and Ivory Coast)
Declension
| Inflection of akan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | akan | — | |
| genitive | akanin | — | |
| partitive | akania | — | |
| illative | akaniin | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | akan | — | |
| accusative | nom. | akan | — |
| gen. | akanin | ||
| genitive | akanin | — | |
| partitive | akania | — | |
| inessive | akanissa | — | |
| elative | akanista | — | |
| illative | akaniin | — | |
| adessive | akanilla | — | |
| ablative | akanilta | — | |
| allative | akanille | — | |
| essive | akanina | — | |
| translative | akaniksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | akanitta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |