A Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tshi (Chwee, Twi), with a Grammatical Introduction and Appendices on the Geography of the Gold Coast and other Subjects.

Abstract

The Dictionary follows “A grammar of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi), based on the Akuapem Dialect, with reference to the other (Akan and Fante) Dialects, “by the same author, Basel, 1875. The said Grammar has been approved by several philologists in Germany and Frence.*). Tshi we call the language prevalent in the Gold Coast countries between the rivers Asini and Tanno on the W. and the Volta on the E., extending even beyond the Volta, and from the sea- coast to the upper course of the Volta and the Kong mountains on the N – Rem.