Fante, also called Fanti, Fantse, or Mfantse, is the mother tongue of the Fante people of Ghana. It is a close cousin of Asante and Akuapem, known collectively known as Twi.

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More from Wikipedia: "Fante (Akan: [ˈfɑnti]), also known as Fanti, Fantse, or Mfantse, is one of the three principal members of the Akan dialect continuum, along with Asante and Akuapem, the latter two collectively known as Twi, with which it is mutually intelligible. It is spoken in the central and southern regions of Ghana, as well as in settlements in other regions in western Ghana. Fante is the common dialect of the Fante people, whose communities each have their own subdialects, such as Agona, Anomabo, Abura, and Gomoa, all of which are mutually intelligible. Schacter and Fromkin describe two main Fante dialect groups: Fante 1, which uses a syllable-final /w/ and thus distinguishes kaw (""dance"") and ka (""bite""); and Fante 2, where these words are homophonous. A standardized form of Fante is taught in primary and secondary schools. Many Fantes are bilingual or bidialectal and most can speak Twi. Notable speakers include Cardinal Peter Appiah Turkson, Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and former Ghanaian presidents Kwame Nkrumah and John Atta Mills. Maya Angelou learned Fante as an adult during her stay in Ghana. One striking characteristic of Fante is the level of English influence, including English loanwords and anglicized forms of native names, due both to British colonial influence and ""to fill lexical and semantic gaps, for reasons of simplicity and also for prestige"". Examples of such borrowings include rɛkɔso (""records""), rɔba ""rubber"", nɔma (""number""), kolapuse ""collapse"", and dɛkuleti ""decorate"". Native names are occasionally anglicized, such as ""Mεnsa"" becoming ""Mensah"" or ""Atta"" becoming ""Arthur"". Many people consider European Christian missionaries and schools the cause of this anglicization."

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