If you found our episode on Ghanaian English interesting, we have more information below. If you haven’t listened yet, find it here.
Where is Ghana? It’s next door to Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Togo in West Africa.
What was that book of Ghanaianisms Selikem mentioned? Ghanaianisms: A Glossary
This article also has some Ghanaianisms.
Is there more information about Ghanaian Pidgin English? Selikem mentioned that there are two types:
- Basilectal – associated with less educated people
- Mesolectal/acrolectal – associated with more educated people
Magnus Huber has more information about them here.
You can hear some of it here.
What are the language families in Ghana? There is one big one: Niger-Congo, but three subfamilies.
Language Families: all Niger-Congo , but three subfamilies: Kwa, Mande and Gur.
Éwé and Akan are both Kwa languages.
Who were the Ghanaian rappers mentioned on the episode? M.anifest, Sarkodie, Kofi Kanata, the late Ebony, and Stonebwoy.
Carrie
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