Twi

See also: twi, TWI, twî, ƫwi, and twi-

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Twi Twi.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡ʃwiː/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -iː

Proper noun

Twi

A dialect of the Akan language, spoken in Ghana in West Africa.
- 2016, Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing, Penguin Books (2017), page 35:
  She kept her eyes low, and though her Twi was passable, she rarely spoke it.

Translations

language

Dutch: Twi (nl) n
Farefare: sãntɛɛnɛ, kãmbɔnnɛ
German: Twi (de) n
Moore: sãnteere
Portuguese: twi (pt) m
Russian: чви (ru) m (čvi)
Swedish: twi (sv)

Further reading

ISO 639-1 code tw, ISO 639-3 code twi (SIL)

Anagrams

Tiw, WIT, wit, wit', wit.

Akan

Proper noun

Twi

Twi (a dialect of the Akan language, spoken in Ghana)

Dutch

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Proper noun

Twi n

Twi (language)

Anagrams

wit

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