Asante Twi, also known as Ashanti, Ashante, or Asante, is one of the principal varieties of the Twi-Fante language. As the variety spoken by the Asante people, is one of the three literary standards of Twi-Fante, the others being Akuapem Twi and Fante. There are over 3.8 million speakers of Asante, mainly concentrated in Ghana and southeastern Cote D'Ivoire, and especially in and around the Ashanti Region of Ghana.
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