Akan

See also: akan, akán, and àkan

English

Adjective

Akan (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the Akan people.
2. Of or pertaining to the Akan language and other related languages.

Proper noun

Akan

1. A people who inhabit Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
2. The Niger-Congo language spoken by these people.
3. A group of languages spoken in Ghana.
4. A volcano in Hokkaido, Japan.

Derived terms

• Akan states

Translations

Niger-Congo language

• Akan: Akan
• Arabic: أَكَانِيَّة (ʔakāniyya)
• Armenian: ական (hy) (akan)
• Asturian: llingua akán, akán
• Breton: akaneg
• Catalan: àkan (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿坎语 (ākǎn yǔ)

• Czech: akanština (cs)
• Dutch: Akan (nl) n
• Ewe: Blu, Blugbe
• Finnish: akan (fi)
• German: Akan (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: Acáinis f
• Korean: 아칸어 (akan-eo)
• Latvian: akanu valodas
• Malay: bahasa Akan, Akan
• Norwegian: akan (no), akansk

  Nynorsk: akan, akansk

• Polish: akan
• Portuguese: akan (pt) m
• Russian: ака́н (ru) m (akán)
• Spanish: akan (es), acano (es)
• Swedish: akan (sv)
• Ukrainian: акан (akan)
• Yoruba: Akan

language group spoken in Ghana

• Akan: Akan
• Arabic: أَكَانِيَّة (ʔakāniyya)
• Armenian: ական (hy) (akan)
• Asturian: akán
• Breton: akaneg
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿坎语 (ākǎn yǔ)

• Corsican: akan (co)
• Czech: akanština (cs), akánština (cs)
• Dutch: Akan (nl)
• Esperanto: akana
• Finnish: akan (fi)
• French: akan (fr) m
• Galician: akan (gl)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Akan (de)
• Irish: Acáinis f
• Italian: akan (it)
• Korean: 아칸어군 (akan-eo-gun)
• Latvian: akanu valoda f
• Malay: bahasa Akan, Akan
• Norwegian: akan (no)
• Polish: akan
• Portuguese: akan (pt) m
• Russian: ака́н (ru) m (akán), ака́нский язы́к m (akánskij jazýk)
• Sicilian: akan (scn) m
• Spanish: acano (es), akan (es)
• Swedish: akan (sv)

See also

• Kramanti, Koromanti
• Wiktionary’s coverage of Akan terms
• Akan language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Akan people on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Akan edition of Wiktionary

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Anagrams

• Kana, kana, knaa

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Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /akan/

Proper noun

Akan

1. Akan (ethnic group)