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Fanti

American  
[fan-tee, fahn-] / ˈfæn ti, ˈfɑn- /

noun

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


Fanti British  
/ ˈfæntɪ /

noun

  1. a language of Ghana: one of the two chief dialects of Akan Compare Twi

  2. a member of a Negroid people who speak this language, inhabiting the rain forests of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire

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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

A statue in a public garden at the end of one of these feelers, or, more correctly speaking, promontories, commemorates the expulsion of the Swiss Papal Guard by General Fanti in 1860.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe