Fanti
[fan-tee, fahn-]
- a Kwa language spoken in Ghana that is mutually intelligible with Twi.
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They hate these Fanti men, and it is they against whom they war.
With Wolseley to KumasiF.S. Brereton
The Fanti country being cleared, a road towards the Prah was now energetically pushed forward.
Our SoldiersW.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 DependenciesRobert 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 DependenciesRobert 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 DependenciesRobert Gordon Latham
Fanti
- 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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