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"tradialects"

What are "tradialects"? I can't find this word in any dictionary and a Google search pretty much only directs to this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Espensj (talk • contribs) 18:02, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don’t know, and I can’t find that word here or anywhere on Wikipedia. It looks like an error, like someone e.g. removed some text between "trade" and "dialects" due to mistaken editing. Both words appear in this article. It sounds like a problem with Google, maybe storing an old copy of this page with errors in.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 04:37, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, just noticed this is an old comment, so doubly suggests it was a problem with an old version.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 04:39, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"ŋ̀kú"

This word is given here as meaning "shea butter" in Twi. No examples of the Twi language on this page use diacritics and the grave accent over the eng seems to suggest that it is representing a syllable nucleus rather than prenasalization while nothing on this page seems to suggest that nasals can be syllable nuclei in Twi. Either Twi is tonal and this page has somehow omitted it or the person who gave the word on the other page was very confused (which seems a lot more likely). 69.218.220.5 (talk) 10:48, 31 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know Twi, but the Twi Wikipedia article on Ghana (Gaana) alone uses a subscript inverted breve (ɔ̯) and an acute (í), so I would guess that either it shouldn't or there should be some coverage of diacritics here. Redactur (talk) 11:40, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

On what is and isn't Twi

It seems as though all dialects of Akan have at some point been referred to as dialects of Twi, which, should Wikipedia follow suit, would make "Twi" as a concept identical to Akan. The most common classification is to limit it to Asante and Akuapem. Should the article include Fante, Bono, Wasa, etc., it would have to include all those dialects of Akan, which would, again, defeat the purpose of the classification. I think it would be best, per my current revision, to have only Asante and Akuapem listed directly, then include a note about the term's occasional fuzziness. Thoughts? Lingvulo (talk) 07:43, 5 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Twi entails Fante, Bono, Asante and Akuapem. However, that does not mean all dialects of Akan are Twi. Thats why Agni, Sefwi, Chakosi etc are not embedded in the Twi cluster. There is nothing like occasionally factoring in Fante, Bono and Wasa to be Twi. Twi is my dialect, i know what it entails. Twi actually is a cluster of dialects which contains the aforementioned four dialects of Fante, Bono, Asante and Akuapem. I dont actually think it would sound fair to you, if it says Twi entails only Bono and Akuapem, or Bono and Asante, or Bono and Fante, or Akuapem and Fante, or Asante and Fante etc.

Thanks Sacrifice06 (talk) 21:50, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Orthography

I'm confused by the display of an alphabet (which is used for every example of Twi I can find, including Twi Wikipedia) and the apparently contradictory statement "Modern Ghanaians use Adinkra Nkyea, a writing system based on the Adinkra Symbols." Can anyone clarify this? Redactur (talk) 11:39, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

`twi`

@Cookiemonster1618: even if no longer in use, the ISO 639 codes of "tw" and "twi" need to be included in this article. ~~An explanation of why "tw" should not be used for hypertext documents can then be provided within the article itself.~~ Also note that there is a Twi Wikipedia ("tw:Main Page") and that wikilinks using the language code "tw:" are a valid language code for use in wikimarkup. You will need to contact the Wikimedia Foundation to change the URL of "tw.wikipedia.org" to "ak.wikipedia.org" and then change every page on every wiki in every language for all interwikilinks using "tw:" to use "ak:" instead. Nicole Sharp (talk) 09:26, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

See the discussion here: "ak:Main Page", regarding use of "ak" instead of "tw" on Wikipedia. "tw" is the correct code for Twi, not "ak". Nicole Sharp (talk) 09:57, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note that there are many ISO 639-3 codes for "languages" that should technically be considered dialects instead. The difference between a dialect and a language is often political and not linguistic. Nicole Sharp (talk) 09:29, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I changed the codes back because more people speak Fante than Twi, so "ak" (aka) should default to "fat" (the most commonly spoken dialect of Akan) and not to "tw" (twi). Google Translate however will provide a translation in Twi and not Fante if asked to translate into Akan. Nicole Sharp (talk) 09:46, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ethnologue doesn't provide a speaker population for the Twi dialect of Akan it provides a speaker population for Fante, Asante, Akuapem, and others but Twi isn't listed with the Akan language with it's number of speakers. The Ethnologue page for Twi also doesn't exist as Ethnologue removed the iso code for Twi because it considers it a dialect and not a separate language. Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 15:43, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]