Guang languages explained

Guan
Region:	Ghana, Togo
Ethnicity:	Guan people
Familycolor:	Niger-Congo
Fam2:	Atlantic–Congo
Fam3:	Kwa
Fam4:	Potou–Tano
Fam5:	Tano
Child1:	North
Child2:	South
Glotto:	guan1278
Glottorefname:	Guan

The Guan languages are languages of the Kwa language family spoken by the Guan people in Ghana and Togo:

• South Guan: Efutu, Cherepon, Gua, Larteh
• North Guan: Anii, Chumburung - Tchumbuli, Dwang, Foodo, Kyode, Ginyanga, Gonja, Kplang, Krache, Nawuri, Nchumbulu, Nkonya–Nkami, Ntrapo, Vagala

History Of Guan

Ethnologue and Glottolog also list Dompo, but according to Blench (1999), that is better left unclassified.

Proto-Guang has been reconstructed by Snider (1990).^[1]

See also

• List of Proto-Guang reconstructions (Wiktionary)

References

lartehassociation.co.UK

Notes and References

1. Snider, Keith L. 1990. The consonants of proto-Guan. Journal of West African languages 20(1), 3-26.