A Descriptive Grammar of Fanti

Abstract

1. Fanti is the principal language of the Gold Coast Colony, which forms the southern part of the Gold Coast, British West Africa. It is the native language of perhaps a million people, and is used as a second language by many more. To a large extent it appears to be mutually intelligible with Twi, which is spoken in the Ashanti province to the north. It is not, however, mutually intelligible with Gã, the language of Accra, the Gold Coast capital. Fanti is a member of the Akan group of languages, and falls into the general classification of Sudanic languages.