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    The Kwa languages, often specified as New Kwa, are a proposed but as-yet-undemonstrated family of languages spoken in the south-eastern part of Ivory...
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  • Kwa or KWA may refer to: Kwah language, spoken in Nigeria Kwa' language, spoken in Cameroon Kwa languages (or New Kwa), a disputed Niger–Congo subfamily...
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    Volta–Niger family of languages, also known as West Benue–Congo or East Kwa, is one of the branches of the Niger–Congo language family, with perhaps 70...
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    languages which were used. All these languages belong to the Niger–Congo language family, though to several different branches. Akan, part of the Kwa...
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  • The Central Tano or Akan languages are languages of the Niger-Congo family (or perhaps the theorised Kwa languages) spoken in Ghana and Ivory Coast by...
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    Tula-Waja languages. The Kwa languages are represented by the Gun group in the extreme southwest, which is affiliated to the Gbe languages in Benin and...
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    70 or so indigenous languages fall into five main branches of the Niger–Congo family. In the southeastern quadrant are Kwa languages, some such as Baoulé...
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    languages were traditionally placed in the Kwa branch of the Niger–Congo languages, but more recently have been classified as Volta–Niger languages....
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    and Adamawa–Ubangi languages, which apart from Ubangian are now linked together as Savannas. Other branches are Kru, Senufo, Kwa, and Benue–Congo, which...
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    Of those, French is the official language, and most of the indigenous languages are considered national languages. Benin is a Francophone country, and...
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  • Ga–Dangme is a branch of the Kwa language family. Ga–Dangme is made up of just two languages: Ga and Dangme. They are closely related and have sometimes...
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  • The Potou–Tano or Potou–Akanic languages are the only large, well-established branch of the Kwa family. They have been partially reconstructed historically...
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    Senufo languages are bounded to the west by Mande languages, to the south by Kwa languages, and to the north and east by Central Gur languages. The Senufo...
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  • The Dangme language, also Adangme, Dangbe or Adaŋgbi, is a Kwa language spoken in south-eastern Ghana by the Dangme people (Dangmeli). They are part of...
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  • Kwaʼ (Bakwa) is a minor Bamileke language of Cameroon. Kwaʼ at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) v t e v t e...
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    They are part of the Kwa branch of the Niger–Congo family. Bernhard Struck, in 1912, was the first to group together these languages under the label Semibantu...
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  • Ga is a Kwa language spoken in Ghana, in and around the capital Accra, by the Ga people. There are also some speakers in Togo, Benin and Western Nigeria...
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  • Akan (category Language and nationality disambiguation pages)
    Akan languages, a language group within the wider Central Tano languages Kwa languages, a language group which includes Akan Central Tano languages, a language...
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  • The Guang languages are languages of the Kwa language family spoken by the Guang people in Ghana and Togo: Southern Guang Efutu-Awutu Hill Guang: dialects...
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  • The Gonja language, properly called Ngbanya or Ngbanyito, is a Tano language within the Kwa languages family, closely related to Akan languages. Most Gonja...
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  • Kwah (Kwa), also known as Baa (Bàː), is a Niger–Congo language of uncertain affiliation; the more it has been studied, the more divergent it appears. Joseph...
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    and Kabiyé - as national languages, meaning that they are promoted in formal education and the media. The two national languages tend to be used regionally...
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  • The Sotho-Tswana languages are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken in Southern Africa. The Sotho-Tswana group corresponds to the S.30 label...
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  • a possible Kwa language; Blench (2012) notes that it "may either be an isolate with [Kwa] borrowings or a highly divergent branch of Kwa". Blench, Roger...
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    expressions from Spanish and African languages, particularly Kwa languages (especially Twi and Ewe) and Igbo languages. The language is also known as "San Andrés...
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  • Togorestsprachen or Togo Remnant languages) of the Kwa branch of Niger–Congo. The speakers themselves, the Adele people, call the language Gidire. In Ghana, the...
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  • western Southeastern Gurunsi languages Cala and Dulo are influenced by Kwa languages. The eastern Southeastern Gurunsi languages Bago and Kusuntu display...
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  • (2017) classifies Ega as a Western Kwa language that has borrowed from Kru, Gur, and Mande. Like other Western Kwa languages, traditional story-telling among...
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  • commonly referred to as Ghana–Togo Mountain languages. The dozen or so Ghana–Togo Mountain languages are part of the Kwa branch of the Niger–Congo family. The...
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  • a Kwa language of the Central Tano branch, forming a dialect continuum with Anyin and closely related to Nzema and Sehwi. It is the common language of...
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