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Fante

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Intangible natural_language Q35570
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Summary

Fante is a natural language[1]. Fante draws 650 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #280 of 734).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Ghana[3]
  • Instance of: modern language[4]
  • Subclass of: Central Tano[5], Akan[6]
  • Writing system: Latin script[7]
  • Wikimedia language code: fat[8]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 2,800,000[9]
  • Described by source: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/FAT[11]

Why It Matters

Fante has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] Fante is known by 27 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

Ama Ata Aidoo Ghana John Evans Atta Mills Kwame Nkrumah Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5d ago · Fmadore007 · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'br', 'ca', 'dag', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fr', 'functions', 'gl',
    Library of congress authority id → sh85047169
    Sitelink count → 23
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Library of congress authority id: sh85047169, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290628|batch #290628]]"
  2. 10w ago · Danÿa · 2026-08-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikimedia language code → fat
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Wikimedia language code: fat"
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