THE GHANAIAN PEOPLE
Ghana as it stands currently has a little over 70 languages being spoken. The languages are in 9 major families which have being fully detailed in the book KNOW GHANA BETTER . The 9 major language families have words that cut across the various languages in them making all the Ghanaian languages inter-related. The 9 language families are : Ga-Dangme languages Guan languages Akan languages Ewe languages Mole-Dagbon languages Gurma languages Gurunsi languages Ghana-Togo Mountain languages Senufo languages There are few Afro-asiatic languages like Hausa and Fulfulde (Fulani) as well as Indo-European and Semitic languages spoken in Ghana. These are due to colonisation and religion influences. The 9 major ethnic groups can be broken down to about 73 tribes which each having its unique language and even dialects. Most of the dialects are much closer to their mother languages hence, one may not lay much emphasis on them. INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES IN GHANA: Indo-European languages are those lan...