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Advanced and retracted tongue root and Akan language

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Difference between Advanced and retracted tongue root and Akan language

Advanced and retracted tongue root vs. Akan language

In phonetics, advanced tongue root and retracted tongue root, abbreviated ATR or RTR, are contrasting states of the root of the tongue during the pronunciation of vowels in some languages, especially in Western and Eastern Africa but also in Kazakh and Mongolian. Akan is a Central Tano language that is the principal native language of the Akan people of Ghana, spoken over much of the southern half of that country, by about 58% of the population, and among 30% of the population of Ivory Coast.

Similarities between Advanced and retracted tongue root and Akan language

Advanced and retracted tongue root and Akan language have 6 things in common (in Unionpedia): Fante dialect, Front vowel, Stop consonant, Twi, Voice (phonetics), Vowel harmony.

Fante dialect

Fantse (Mfantse, Fante, Fanti) is one of the three formal literary dialects of the Akan language.

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Front vowel

A front vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned relatively in front in the mouth without creating a constriction that would make it a consonant.

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Stop consonant

In phonetics, a stop, also known as a plosive or oral occlusive, is a consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

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Twi

Twi (pronounced, or Akan Kasa) is a dialect of the Akan language spoken in southern and central Ghana by about 6–9 million Ashanti people as a first and second language.

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Voice (phonetics)

Voice is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).

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Vowel harmony

Vowel harmony is a type of long-distance assimilatory phonological process involving vowels that occurs in some languages.

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Advanced and retracted tongue root and Akan language Comparison

Advanced and retracted tongue root has 41 relations, while Akan language has 63. As they have in common 6, the Jaccard index is 5.77% = 6 / (41 + 63).

References

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