| Anufɔ | |
| Also Known As: | Chakosi |
| Nativename: | Anufɔ |
| Region: | Ghana, Togo, Benin, Ivory Coast |
| Ethnicity: | Anufo people |
| Date: | 2013 |
| Ref: | e22 |
| Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
| Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
| Fam3: | Kwa |
| Fam4: | Potou–Tano |
| Fam5: | Tano |
| Fam6: | Central Tano (Akan) |
| Fam7: | Bia |
| Fam8: | North |
| Minority: |  Benin |
| Iso3: | cko |
| Glotto: | anuf1239 |
| Glottorefname: | Anufɔ |
Anufo (Anufɔ), also known as Chakosi, is a Central Tano language spoken in northeast Ghana, northern Togo, northwest Benin and Ivory Coast by approximately 180,000 people.
According to the 2021 Population and Housing Census in Ghana, the Anufo in northeast Ghana, especially those in the Chereponi District numbered 87,176 with more females of (44,342) representing 50.9 percent than males being (42,834) constituting 49.1 percent (GSS, 2021).
| +Consonants[1] | Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labial-velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | round | palatal | plain | palatal | plain | palatal | plain | round | plain | palatal | ||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /mʲ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ŋmʲ/ | |||||||
| Stop | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /pʷ/ | pronounced as /pʲ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /tʲ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /cʲ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /kʷ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /kpʲ/ | ||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /bʷ/ | pronounced as /bʲ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /dʲ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ɟʲ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ɡʷ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /gbʲ/ | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /fʷ/ | pronounced as /fʲ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ɕᶣ/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ʑᶣ/ | ||||||||||||
| Rhotic | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /rʲ/ | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | voiceless | pronounced as /ɥ̥/ | ||||||||||||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /lᶣ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||||||
| Nasal | |||||
| Back | Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ĩ/ | pronounced as /ũ/ | |
| Close-mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Open-Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ɛ̃/ | pronounced as /ɔ̃/ | |
| Open | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ã/ |
Anufo is written in the Latin alphabet, with the addition of the letters Ɛ ɛ, Ɱ ɱ, Ŋ ŋ and Ɔ ɔ.[2]