University of British Columbia, 2011. — 113 p. This thesis investigates two post-nominal morphemes, bi and nʊ, in Akan (a Kwa language spoken mainly in Ghana). I analyze bi as an indefinite marker and nʊ as a definite marker. Bi occurs in different environments; the main two environments are the pronominal environment and the determiner environment where it follows the noun...
Northwestern University, 1975. — 342 p.
This introduction to Akan is designed to provide the basic structures and vocabulary that a non-native speaker would need to use Akan. The text is based on the Asante dialect of Akan, and is divided into twenty units. Each unit consists of a conversation given in English and Asante, drills for the classroom or individual practice, grammar...
SOAS, University of London, 1973. — 763 p. The thesis is divided into seven chapters and is mainly devoted to an analysis, in formal terms, of the grammatical categories of mood, polarity, tense, person, number, transitivity and aspect that need to be set up for a synchronic description of the verbal piece in Nzema. The introductory first chapter presents a general...
Ghana Universities Press, 1988. — 105 (XII+199) p. The name Akan has, since the 1950's, been used in Ghana to refer to the language whose dialects include Fante, Akuapem, Asante, Bron, Wasa, Agona, Akyem, Kwahu, etc. (see Map 1). These dialects are spoken in the Brong-Ahafo, Ashanti and Central Regions, and in parts of the Western and Eastern Regions of Ghana by about 40% (1960...
Paris: LGM éditions, 2018. — 170 p. Гуйон Матиньон Луи де. Введение в язык аньи (на франц. яз.) L’agni, aussi appelé l’anyin, est une langue kwa du sous-groupe akan ou tano central, parlée en Côte d'Ivoire et au Ghana. Elle est proche du baoulé, du nzema. Ces dialectes sont: indenie, sanvi, djuablin, bini, bona, moronou, ano, abe, barabo et alangua[réf. nécessaire. L'agni...
Kasahorow, 2009. — 67 p. — ISBN: 978-9988037673. Learn the basics of the Akan language in 2 hours! The kasahorow Akan language guide is a concise, portable and easy-to-grasp reference to the Akan language. Complete with essential phrases for navigating common situations in Ghana. Learn Twi, Akuapem or Fanti the modern way. For a new student of Akan, use it as a study guide to...
Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009. — 225 p. — ISBN: 978-3838327914. This book discusses aspects of the grammar of Akan, a language spoken in Ghana, and the theoretical aspects of the relationship between phonology and syntax. Particularly, some constructions are explored in the perspective of the phonology-syntax interface. The existence of phrasal or post-lexical rules has...
Peace Corps. — 81 pages. Год публикации неизвестен. The book should be studied under someone who speaks Fante, preferably a native speaker. In the course of the lessons, the use of English should be avoided except where it cannot be helped. The ultimate aim is to help the learner.to speak the language. Therefore the main principle of teaching is
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930. — 328 p. The task of compiling Folk-tales in West Africa-and possibly else where-may either present the collector with a somewhat difficult or a peculiarly simple task, according to the modus operandi pursued by him in gathering the necessary data. On the Gold Coast, where many of its inhabitants have a good knowledge of our language, the...
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1916. — 204 p.
In the year 1879, the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society published a book of these Proverbs. This work, which was edited by the late J. G. Christaller, contained some 13,600 proverbs in use among the negroes of the Gold Coast, speaking the Ashanti and Fante language.
The collection, to use the words of the compiler, consisted of...
Kraus Intl Pubns, 1966. — 79 p. — (Language dissertations 39). — ISBN: 978-0527007850. Fante (Mfantse, Fanti) is one of the three formal languages (literary dialects) of the Akan language. It is the major local language spoken in the Central and Western Regions of Ghana as well as in settlements in other regions from mid to southern Ghana. One of such communities is Fante New...
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