Author: N'Guessan Jeremie Kouadio, Kofi Agyekum, Kofi Korankye Saah, James Gyekye-Aboagye, Kalilou Tera, Djaban Tano Kouame
ISBN No: 1-919799-87-7
Cost: 57.00
The central mandate of CASAS and main area of its work has been the harmonization and standardization of African languages, based on considerations of mutual intelligibility. One of the language clusters which has been addressed is the Akan cluster of West Africa. The first workshop on the harmonization and standardization of Akan took place in June 2000 and the second in September 2001, both in Abidjan, Ivory Coast: N?Guessan J?r?mie Kouadio, Kofi Agyekum, Kofi Korankye Saah, James Gyekye-Aboagye, Kalilou Tera, Djaban Tano Kouame, Sassongo Silue, Kouassi Adoua and Niamouke Joseph were the linguists involved in this exercise. A third workshop on the harmonization and standardization of Akan was convened for 22 ? 23 May 2002 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Again, N?Guessan J?r?mie Kouadio, Kofi Agyekum, Kofi Korankye Saah, James Gyekye-Aboagye, Kalilou Tera and Djaban Tano Kouame were in attendance. J?r?mie Kouadio was the chairperson of both meetings. This text is the final result of their work. For the first time in history the text harmonizes the orthography of most Akan speech forms in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
ISBN No: 1-919799-87-7
Cost: 57.00
The central mandate of CASAS and main area of its work has been the harmonization and standardization of African languages, based on considerations of mutual intelligibility. One of the language clusters which has been addressed is the Akan cluster of West Africa. The first workshop on the harmonization and standardization of Akan took place in June 2000 and the second in September 2001, both in Abidjan, Ivory Coast: N?Guessan J?r?mie Kouadio, Kofi Agyekum, Kofi Korankye Saah, James Gyekye-Aboagye, Kalilou Tera, Djaban Tano Kouame, Sassongo Silue, Kouassi Adoua and Niamouke Joseph were the linguists involved in this exercise. A third workshop on the harmonization and standardization of Akan was convened for 22 ? 23 May 2002 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Again, N?Guessan J?r?mie Kouadio, Kofi Agyekum, Kofi Korankye Saah, James Gyekye-Aboagye, Kalilou Tera and Djaban Tano Kouame were in attendance. J?r?mie Kouadio was the chairperson of both meetings. This text is the final result of their work. For the first time in history the text harmonizes the orthography of most Akan speech forms in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
