This study addresses child language acquisition in Akan, a Kwa language spoken in Ghana
with about 8,100,000 first language speakers (Simon and Fennig, 2018). Although Akan is …

This paper examines some phonological processes observed in the Pig Latin; a linguistic
game played in Akan, a Niger-Congo (Kwa) language. The Akan Pig Latin (henceforth APL) …

This article deals with the analysis of the morphological assimilation of Arabic loanwords
into Tatar, Altai language family, and Swahili, Bantu language family. The urgency of this …

There is controversy over the use of the term Akan by reason of the fact that it has both
linguistic and ethnographic semantic readings. Not all the Akan people speak the Akan …

This paper critically examines the palatalization rule in Akan, a Niger-Congo (Kwa)
language, specifically velar palatalization. In addition to the regular Akan phonology, it …

This thesis studies the loanword phonologies of Ga and Dangme (Kwa, Ga-Dangme group)
languages. It focuses on investigating how Akan (Kwa, Tano Central group) source words …

Several Akan personal names are losing their sociocultural meaning due to the process of
anglicisation. Anglicisation affects orthography, segments, pronunciation and sometimes the …

The focus of this paper is to offer an empirical account of the segmental processes that
underpin loanword adaptation in Dagbani, a Mabia (Gur) language spoken in the Northern …

The study which is ethnographic in nature employs qualitative and acoustic analytical
approach to examine [m] and [n] as syllabic consonants in Akan. In all, 30 Akan (Akuapem …

The study investigates phonological and morphological adaptation of loanwords in Dagbani,
a Mabia (Gur) language spoken in the Northern part of Ghana. In contrast to existing …