Central Tano languages
| Akan | |
|---|---|
| Central Tano | |
| Geographic distribution | Ghana, Ivory Coast |
| Ethnicity | Akan |
| Linguistic classification | Niger–Congo? |
| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | cent2262 |
The Akan or Central Tano languages are a pair of dialect clusters of the Atlantic–Congo family (perhaps in a theorised Kwa branch) spoken in Ghana and Ivory Coast by the Akan people.
Akan is commonly called "Central Tano" to disambiguate it from the Twi-Fante language, which has commonly been called "Akan" since a unified Twi-Fante orthography was introduced.