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{{short description|Dialect of Akan in Ghana}}
{{Infobox language
| name = Asante
| nativename = ''Asah''
| states = [[Ashanti Region|Ashanti]]
| ethnicity = [[Ashanti people|Ashanti]]
| speakers = {{sigfig|3.820000|2}} million
| date = 2013
| ref = <ref>{{e26|aka|Akan}}</ref>
| familycolor = Niger-Congo
| fam2 = [[Atlantic–Congo languages|Atlantic–Congo]]
|fam3=[[Volta–Congo]]
| fam4 = [[Kwa languages|Kwa]]
| fam5 = [[Potou–Tano languages|Potou–Tano]]
| fam6 = [[Tano languages|Tano]]
| fam7 = [[Central Tano languages|Central Tano]]
| fam8 = [[Akan language|Akan]]
| agency = [[Akan Orthography Committee]]
| isoexception = dialect
| glotto = asan1239
| glottorefname = Asante
| script = Latin, [[Ghanaian braille|Braille]]
}}

'''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 dialect]]s of Akan, the others being [[Akuapem dialect|Akuapem]] and [[Fante language|Fante]].<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/aka|title=Akan|website=Ethnologue|access-date=2019-12-25}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite book |last1=Schacter |first1=Paul |last2=Fromkin |first2=Victoria |title=A Phonology of Akan: Akuapem, Asante, Fante |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |location=Los Angeles |year=1968 |page=3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Arhin |first1=Kwame |title=A Profile of Brong Kyempim: Essays on the Archaeology, History, Language and Politics of the Brong Peoples of Ghana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R9gJAQAAIAAJ&q=twi |publisher=Afram |date=1979}}</ref> There are over 3.8 million speakers of the Asante dialect, mainly concentrated in [[Ghana]] and southeastern [[Cote D'Ivoire]],<ref name=":0" /> and especially in and around the [[Ashanti Region]] of [[Ghana]].
[[File:WIKITONGUES- Raphael speaking Twi.webm|thumb|A man speaking Asante Twi|center]]

== References ==
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{{Ashanti topics|expanded}}
{{Languages of Ghana}}

[[Category:Ashanti people]]
[[Category:Akan]]
[[Category:Akan language]]


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