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===భాషలు===
[[File:Akan Greetings (Akwaba – Welcome; Ete sen – Hello).JPG|thumb|Ashanti [[greeting]] [[phrase]]s; "akɔaba" (welcome) and "ɛte sɛn" (how is it?) in Ashanti Twi]]
Englishఘనా isఇంగ్లీషు theఅధికారిక [[officialభాషగానూ language]]వాడుక andభాషగానూ [[lingua franca]]ఉంది.<ref name="USA">{{cite web|title=The Bureau of Ghana Languages-BGL|url=http://www.ghanaembassy.org/index.php?page=language-and-religion|publisher=Ghana Embassy Washington DC, USA|year=2013|accessdate=11 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022204947/http://www.ghanaembassy.org/index.php?page=language-and-religion|archive-date=22 October 2013|dead-url=no|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=A handbook of varieties of English. 1. Phonology, Volume 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mtd3a-56ysUC&pg=PA847 |publisher=Oxford University Press |author=Bernd Kortmann Walter de Gruyter, 2004|year=2004|accessdate=11 November 2013|isbn=9783110175325 }}</ref> ▼
▲English is the [[official language]] and [[lingua franca]].<ref name="USA">{{cite web|title=The Bureau of Ghana Languages-BGL|url=http://www.ghanaembassy.org/index.php?page=language-and-religion|publisher=Ghana Embassy Washington DC, USA|year=2013|accessdate=11 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022204947/http://www.ghanaembassy.org/index.php?page=language-and-religion|archive-date=22 October 2013|dead-url=no|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=A handbook of varieties of English. 1. Phonology, Volume 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mtd3a-56ysUC&pg=PA847 |publisher=Oxford University Press |author=Bernd Kortmann Walter de Gruyter, 2004|year=2004|accessdate=11 November 2013|isbn=9783110175325 }}</ref>
అదనంగా, ప్రభుత్వ ప్రాయోజిత భాషల హోదా కలిగిన పదకొండు భాషలు ఉన్నాయి:
Additionally, there are eleven languages that have the status of government-sponsored languages:
* గా
*[[Ga language|Ga]],
* నాలుగు అకాను జాతి భాషలు (అసంటే ట్వి, అకువాపెం ట్వి, మఫాంట్సే, న్జెమా),
*four are [[Akan language|Akan ethnic languages]] ([[Asante dialect|Asante Twi]], [[Akuapem Twi]], [[Fante dialect|Mfantse]] and [[Nzema language|Nzema]]),
* రెండు మోలు-దగ్బానీ జాతి భాషలు (దగారే, దగ్బన్లి).
*two are [[Oti-Volta languages|Mole-Dagbani ethnic]] languages ([[Dagaare]] and [[Dagomba language|Dagbanli]]).
* ఈవీ,
* [[Ewe language|Ewe]],
* డంగ్మె.
* [[Adangme language|Dangme]],
* గ్వాను
* [[Guan language|Guan]],
* and [[Kasem language|Kasem]]కసెం..<ref name="NCA">{{cite web|title=The Bureau of Ghana Languages-BGL|url=http://www.ghanaculture.gov.gh/index1.php?linkid=331&page=2§ionid=602|publisher=National Commission on Culture|year=2006|accessdate=11 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112001558/http://www.ghanaculture.gov.gh/index1.php?linkid=331&page=2§ionid=602|archive-date=12 November 2013|dead-url=yes|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Study of Ghanaian Languages|url=http://www.africa.upenn.edu/K-12/Study_16156.html|publisher=africa.upenn.edu|accessdate=6 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112001739/http://www.africa.upenn.edu/K-12/Study_16156.html|archive-date=12 November 2013|dead-url=no|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
* వీటిలో అకాను ఎక్కువగా వాడుకలో ఉంది.<ref name="Introduction To The Verbal and Multi-Verbalsystem of Akan">{{cite web|title=Introduction To The Verbal and Multi-Verbalsystem of Akan|url=http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/tross/osam.pdf|work=ling.hf.ntnu.no|year=2013|accessdate=16 November 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407085659/http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/tross/osam.pdf|archivedate=7 April 2014|df=}}</ref>ఘనా చుట్టూ ఫ్రెంచి మాట్లాడే దేశాలు ఉన్నందున ఫ్రెంచి పాఠశాలలలో విశ్వవిద్యాలయాలలో ఫ్రెంచి విస్తృతంగా బోధిస్తారు. అలాగే వాణిజ్య, అంతర్జాతీయ ఆర్థిక మార్పిడికి ఉపయోగించే భాషగా ఉంది. 2006 నుండి ఘనా ఆర్గనైజేషను ఇంటర్నేషనలు డి లా ఫ్రాంకోఫోనీ <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jeux.francophonie.org/etats-invites/ghana|title=Ghana – Jeux de la francophonie|website=www.jeux.francophonie.org|access-date=10 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180211131331/https://www.jeux.francophonie.org/etats-invites/ghana|archive-date=11 February 2018|dead-url=no|df=dmy-all}}</ref> ఫ్రెంచి మాట్లాడే దేశాలను (6 ఖండాల్లోని 84 దేశాలు) ఏకం చేసే ప్రపంచ సంస్థ. 2005 లో 3,50,000 మంది ఘనా పిల్లలు పాఠశాలలలో ఫ్రెంచి చదివారు. అప్పటి నుండి దాని స్థితి క్రమంగా ప్రతి ఉన్నత పాఠశాలలో తప్పనిసరి భాషగా నవీకరించబడుతుంది.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lalettrediplomatique.fr/contribution_detail.php?id=20&idrub=67&idrubprod=262|title=La Lettre Diplomatique – La revue des Relations internationales et diplomatiques depuis 1988 – La Francophonie et le Ghana|website=www.lalettrediplomatique.fr|access-date=10 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180211072205/http://www.lalettrediplomatique.fr/contribution_detail.php?id=20&idrub=67&idrubprod=262|archive-date=11 February 2018|dead-url=no|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
Of these [[Akan language|Akan]] is the most widely spoken.<ref name="Introduction To The Verbal and Multi-Verbalsystem of Akan">{{cite web|title=Introduction To The Verbal and Multi-Verbalsystem of Akan|url=http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/tross/osam.pdf|work=ling.hf.ntnu.no|year=2013|accessdate=16 November 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407085659/http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/tross/osam.pdf|archivedate=7 April 2014|df=}}</ref>
Since Ghana is surrounded by [[French-speaking countries]], [[French language|French]] is widely taught in schools and universities, as well as a language used for commercial and international economic exchanges. Since 2006, Ghana is an associate member of the [[Organisation internationale de la Francophonie]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jeux.francophonie.org/etats-invites/ghana|title=Ghana – Jeux de la francophonie|website=www.jeux.francophonie.org|access-date=10 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180211131331/https://www.jeux.francophonie.org/etats-invites/ghana|archive-date=11 February 2018|dead-url=no|df=dmy-all}}</ref> the global organisation that unites French-speaking countries (84 nations on 6 continents). In 2005, over 350 000 Ghanaian children studied French in schools. Since then, its status has progressively been updated to a mandatory language in every high school.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lalettrediplomatique.fr/contribution_detail.php?id=20&idrub=67&idrubprod=262|title=La Lettre Diplomatique – La revue des Relations internationales et diplomatiques depuis 1988 – La Francophonie et le Ghana|website=www.lalettrediplomatique.fr|access-date=10 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180211072205/http://www.lalettrediplomatique.fr/contribution_detail.php?id=20&idrub=67&idrubprod=262|archive-date=11 February 2018|dead-url=no|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
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