Asante dialect

Asante
Asante
Asah
Native to	Ashanti
Ethnicity	Ashanti
Native speakers	3.8 million (2013)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta–Congo Kwa Potou–Tano Tano Central Tano Akan Asante; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin, Braille
Official status
Regulated by	Akan Orthography Committee
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	asan1239

Asante, also known as Ashanti, Ashante, or Asante Twi, is one of the principal dialects of the Akan language. It is one of the three literary dialects of Akan, the others being Bono, Akuapem and Fante.^[2]^[3]^[4] There are over 3.8 million speakers of the Asante dialect, mainly concentrated in Ghana and southeastern Cote D'Ivoire,^[2] and especially in and around the Ashanti Region of Ghana.