Fanti

[fan-tee, fahn-]

noun

a Kwa language spoken in Ghana that is mutually intelligible with Twi.

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Historical Examples of fanti

They hate these Fanti men, and it is they against whom they war.
With Wolseley to Kumasi
F.S. Brereton
The Fanti country being cleared, a road towards the Prah was now energetically pushed forward.
Our Soldiers
W.H.G. Kingston
When in distress, the Fanti has a claim upon the good offices of his tribe.
The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies
Robert Gordon Latham
The term Fanti, like the term Mandingo, has a double sense—a general and a specific signification.
The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies
Robert Gordon Latham
The Fanti, Ashanti, and Boroom forms of speech are merely dialects of one and the same language.
The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies
Robert Gordon Latham

British Dictionary definitions for fanti

Fanti

noun

a language of Ghana: one of the two chief dialects of AkanCompare Twi

plural -tis or -ti a member of a Negroid people who speak this language, inhabiting the rain forests of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire

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