Guang languages
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The Guang languages are languages of the Kwa
language family spoken by the Guang people
in Ghana
and Togo
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Kwa languages
The Kwa languages, often specified as New Kwa, are a proposed but as-yet-undemonstrated family of languages spoken in the south-eastern part of Côte d'Ivoire, across southern Ghana, and in central Togo...
language family spoken by the Guang people
Guang people
The Guang people are an ethnic group of northern Ghana. Their ancestors founded the Gonja state. They speak primarily in the Guang languages of the Niger-Congo language family....
in Ghana
Ghana
Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
and Togo
Togo
Togo, officially the Togolese Republic , is a country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, on which the capital Lomé is located. Togo covers an area of approximately with a population of approximately...
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- South Guang: Awutu, ChereponCherepon languageCherepon , or Okere, is a Guang language spoken by 111,000 in Ghana....
, GuaGua languageGua is a Guang language spoken by 180,000 in coastal Ghana. It is also called Anum-Boso, after its two dialects....
, Larteh - North Guang: ChumburungChumburung languageChumburung is a Guang language spoken by 69,000 in Ghana.3,000 of these speak the Yeji dialect, which is quite divergent: no closer to Chumburung proper than Kplang or Krache are....
, Dompo, Dwang, FoodoFoodo languageFoodo is a Guang language spoken by 25,000 in Benin, with a thousand in Ghana, where they originated....
, Kyode, NyangaNyanga languageThe Nyanga language is a language spoken by the Nyanga people in Kivu province, north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Speaker estimates range from 27,000 to 150,000 . Many of the Nyanga speak Congo Swahili, the dominant regional lingua franca, as a second language. Nyanga is a Bantu...
, GonjaGonja languageThe Gonja language is a Kwa language spoken by an estimated 230,000 people, almost all of whom are of the Gonja ethnic group of northern Ghana. Related to Guang languages in the south of Ghana, it is spoken by about a third of the population in the northern region...
, Kplang, Krache, Nawuri, Nchumbulu, Nkonya