See Also: Gur languages(encyclopedia)
Tai languages(encyclopedia)
Kwa languages(encyclopedia)
Kru languages(encyclopedia)
Uralic languages(encyclopedia)
Munda languages(encyclopedia)
Mongolian languages(encyclopedia)
Mon-Khmer languages(encyclopedia)
Maya languages(encyclopedia)
Kordofanian languages(encyclopedia)

Kwa languages (sh)




Branch of the Niger-Congo language family.

Forty-five Kwa languages are spoken by approximately 20 million people in the southern areas of C?te d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and Benin and in the extreme southwestern corner of Nigeria. Languages and language groups having more than a million speakers include Anyi and Baule in C?te d'Ivoire, Akan (including Asante, Fante, and Brong) and Guang in Ghana, and Gbe (including Ewe, Fon, and Anlo) in southeastern Ghana, Togo, and Benin.