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Akan

Акан

language area per Glottologcensus counts
11,321,568
Ghana, census 2010 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
Atlantic-Congo
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Ghana: 11,321,568 people in the 2010 census.

Main language: Akan. Glottolog classifies it in the Atlantic-Congo family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Ghana2010 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Akan» · [1]
11,321,568

Languages and their lineage

Akan

  1. Atlantic-Congoatla1278
  2. Volta-Congovolt1241
  3. Kwa Volta-Congokwav1236
  4. Nyonyoa1234
  5. Potou-Tanopoto1254
  6. Tanotano1248
  7. Central Tanocent2262
  8. Akanicakan1251
  9. Akanakan1250

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

Nkole peopleKisii peopleBanyarwandaKissi peopleGola peopleSwahili peopleYeyi peopleYorubaIgboZuluXhosa

Sources

  1. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Ghana, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  2. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)