Central Tano languages

The Central Tano or Akan languages are a pair of dialect clusters of the Niger-Congo family (or perhaps the theorised Kwa languages)^[1] spoken in Ghana and Ivory Coast by the Akan people.

There are two or three languages, each with dialects that are sometimes treated as languages themselves:^[2][3]

• Akan (primarily in Ghana and East-central Ivory coast (Bono))
  • core Akan (Asante, Akuapem and Fante dialects)
  • Bono–Wasa
• Bia (primarily in Ivory Coast and Western Ghana)
  • Northern Bia language
    • Anyin dialect
    • Baoulé dialect
    • Chakosi (Anufo) dialect
    • Sefwi (Sehwi) dialect
  • Southern Bia language
    • Nzema dialect
    • Ahanta dialect
    • Jwira–Pepesa dialect

All have written forms in the Latin script.