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
Guan may refer to:
* Guan (surname), several simi ...
in
Ghana
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and
Togo
Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its ...
:
*South Guan:
Efutu,
Cherepon,
Gua,
Larteh
*North Guan:
Chumburung–
Tchumbuli,
Dwang
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,
Foodo
Foodo ( ISO 639-3 fod) is a Guang language spoken in and around the town of Sèmèrè in the north of Benin. There are approximately 37,000 speakers (taking the most recent estimate and adding the estimated 3.2% a year growth rate for Benin). ...
,
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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