Akan

The Akan languages are part of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo
languages. There are about 7 million Akan speakers in eastern Ivory
Coast, south-central Ghana, and central Togo. There are numerous
dialects of Akan, including Twi, Fante, Bono, Wasa, Nzema, Baule
and Anyi, with a high level of mutual intelligibility between them.

Akan languages started to be written down, mainly in religious
publications, by Danish, German and British missionaries during the
17th and 18th centuries.

There are currently three standardized orthographies for Asante, Akuapem
and Fante, there is also a unified Akan orthography which was created
during the 1980s.