Wasa language explained

Wasa
Ref:e25
Date:2013
Ethnicity:Wasa people
States:Ghana, Ivory Coast
Familycolor:Niger-Congo
Fam2:Atlantic–Congo
Fam3:Volta–Congo
Fam4:Kwa
Fam5:Potou–Tano
Fam6:Tano
Fam7:Central Tano
Fam8:Akanic
Script:Latin
Glotto:wasa1244
Iso3:wss
Glottorefname:Wasa
Dia1:Amenfi
Dia2:Fianse

Wasa, also rendered as Wassa and Wasaw, is a Central Tano language common to the Wasa people and closely related to the Akan language. It is spoken by 273,000 in southwestern Ghana, mainly in the Wasa Amenfi West and Wasa Amenfi East districts. There are also some Wasa speakers in Ivory Coast. Wasa has some mutually intelligibility with Bono (Abron). Its dialects include Amenfi and Fianse.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Akan. Ethnologue. en. 2019-12-28.