Akan is a dialect continuum that includes Twi, Fante, and Wasa.. The Museum of the World brings an exciting assortment of objects from the archives of the British Museum to the web where you can explore them and their connections.. Ethnologue, whose classification is based on studies of mutual intelligibility and lexical similarity from a multitude of sources, classifies the varieties of Akan as dialects of the overarching Akan language, which belongs to the Cental Tano language family..
