Fanti
Americannoun
noun
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a language of Ghana: one of the two chief dialects of Akan Compare Twi
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a member of a Negroid people who speak this language, inhabiting the rain forests of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
Example Sentences
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These customs fused with those of Nigeria's Yoruba people, leading to creations like the Fanti Carnival.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
Fanti initially thought Donato would try to shoot and committed his body toward the puck.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2022
One of the most unusual experiments was performed by Giulio Fanti, a mechanical engineer at the University of Padova in Italy.
From Science Magazine • Feb. 15, 2019
Last year, Fanti and his colleagues travelled to a series of frequently poached fossil sites in the Nemegt region of the western Gobi and used the scanner to record each site’s unique geochemical signature.
From National Geographic • Nov. 20, 2017
In the words of a Fanti trader Maclean understood the people, “he settled things quietly with them and the people also loved him.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
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