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Kwa languages thus account for at least 60

The major languages in terms of speaker numbersīelong to two branches of Niger-Congo languages: (1) the Kwa branch (southern Of the number of indigenous Ghanaian languages range from 50 ( Kropp Dakubuġ988: 10) to 80 ( Lewis 2009). Ghanaian, Nigerian, and Cameroonian varieties are descendants of Krio (seeīelow and Huber 1999a: 75–134 for details).

Spoken in these countries can to a large part be explained by the fact that the 1 The many similarities between the restructured Englishes In Sierra Leone (the creole Krio), Ghana, Nigeria, Bioko and Cameroon. The West African Pidgin English continuum, which includes the varieties spoken Official language is English, which is predominantly used in formal contexts,Į.g. Modern Ghana is aĬoastal West African country and consists of Britain’s former Gold CoastĬolony, Ashantiland, the Northern Territories, and British Togoland. Ghanaian Pidgin English is used by roughly a fifth of Ghana’s overĢ5 million inhabitants (2012) in variety of situations.