Twi
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- proper noun
- The song reflects the links in the Twi language between smells and orality that demonstrate a poetics of synesthesia.
- Twi-speaking
- Twi-speaking area
- Twi speaker
Examples
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Many people in Ghana speak Twi as their first language.
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All our enemies are vultures. This provocative inscription is written in Roman letters in Twi, one of Ghana's major languages.
Academic text (2007) -
Yet whoever does not understand the Twi I speak could ask his colleague to explain.
Academic text (1995) -
Interviews were conducted in two local dialects, Ga and Twi.
Academic text (2005) -
All meetings were recorded and later transcribed and translated to English by university students who were native Gonja and Twi speakers.
Academic text (2011) -
The word for 'heddle' is eno in Ewe and asatia in Twi.
Academic text (2006) -
Among the Akan, or Twi-speaking, peoples of southern Ghana, members of an elite social class are traditionally portrayed in commemorative terracotta images.
Academic text (1990) -
For example, the popular African-American expression "be cool" is a translation of a phrase from the West African Ashanti language (Twi dialect) that can be directly translated as "cool his heart give him" or more generally rendered as "to calm a person."
Academic text (1992) -
The local radio station broadcasts programs in Twi to reach a wider audience.
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In our class, we learned basic phrases and greetings in Twi.
Synonyms
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8.1
A language spoken mainly in Ghana and Ivory Coast
Surface Forms
Etymology
Twi comes from the Akan name for the language spoken in parts of southern Ghana, so Twi is the proper name of that language and what it is called by its own speakers.