MODERN GUAN GROUPS OF GHANA
Guans are scattered all over Ghana even to sub-Saharan West Africa. They are not scattered in the sense that they are completely dispersed but then, their settlements is in an amazing pattern that is Western Ghana, Southern Ghana, Northern Ghana, Eastern Ghana. They were initially in clans but we cannot at the moment group them into clans again due to gross linguistic changes that have affected most Guan languages. They have assimilated lots of vocabularies from surrounding languages depending on where they are and this have changed their languages and even accents depending on their current settlement. We can group them into 4 language groups and they are : v The Ga-Akan related Guans (Southern Guans) v Akan-related Guans (Western Guans) v Ewe-Akan related Guans (Oti Guans) v Northern Guans Let us learn about the 4 groups. These groupings have a lot to do with their original clan systems. Ga-Akan related Guans : These Guans surround...