The Guan languages are languages of the
Kwa language family
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spoken by the
Guan people
The Guan people are an ethnic group found almost in all parts of Ghana, including the Nkonya tribe, the Gonja, Anum, Larteh, Nawuri and Ntsumburu.
They primarily speak the Guan languages of the Niger-Congo language family. They make up 3.7% ...
in
Ghana
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and
Togo
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:
*South Guan:
Efutu,
Cherepon,
Gua
Gua may refer to:
Biology
* GUA, a codon for the amino acid valine
* Gua or Guanine, a nucleobase found in the nucleic acids DNA and RNA
Telecommunications
* GUA, Global Unicast Address
Languages
* Gua language, a Guang language of coast ...
,
Larteh
Larteh is a language of southeastern Ghana
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*North Guan:
Chumburung–
Tchumbuli,
Dwang,
Foodo,
Kyode,
Ginyanga,
Gonja,
Kplang,
Krache,
Nawuri,
Nchumbulu,
Nkonya–
Nkami,
Ntrapo,
Vagala,
Sissala
''Ethnologue'' and ''Glottolog'' also list
Dompo, but according to Blench (1999), that is better left unclassified.
Proto-Guang has been reconstructed by Snider (1990).
[Snider, Keith L. 1990. The consonants of proto-Guan. ''Journal of West African languages'' 20(1), 3-26.]
See also
*
List of Proto-Guang reconstructions (Wiktionary)
References
Potou–Tano languages
Languages of Ghana
Languages of Togo
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