Also known as Gã, Gã language, Ga language, gaa
Kwa language spoken in Ghana
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ ɡã ]
- Native to
- Ghana
- Region
- South-eastern Ghana , around Accra
- Ethnicity
- Ga
- Native speakers
- 745,000 (2016)
- Language family
- Niger–Congo ? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Kwa Ga–Dangme Ga
- Writing system
- Latin (Ga alphabet), Ghanaian braille
- Official language in
- None; Government-sponsored language in Ghana.
- Iso 639 2
- gaa
- Iso 639 3
- gaa
- Glottolog
- gaaa1244
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Samuel Okpoti speaking Ga in Ghana.
Gã, also spelled Ga or Gan, is a Kwa language, part of the Niger–Congo family, spoken in Ghana, mainly in and around the capital Accra, by the Gã people. It is very closely related to Dangme, and together they form the Gã–Dangme branch. There are also some speakers in Togo, Benin and western Nigeria. It has a phonemic distinction between three vowel lengths.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.