| 释义 |
Twi|twiː, tʃwiː|
Also Tshi |tʃiː|.
a. The chief language spoken in Ghana, consisting of several mutually intelligible dialects.
b. The speakers of Twi. Also attrib.
1874J. G. Christaller Dict. Eng., Tshi-Asànté-Akra p. iv, Tshi is the prevailing language of the Gold Coast. Ibid. p. ix, In the publications of the Basel missionaries, the language is called Tw̌i, pronounced as Chwee would be in English. 1887A. B. Ellis (title) The Tshi-speaking peoples of the Gold Coast. 1920A. W. Cardinall Natives N. Territories Gold Coast 113 There are in the Gold Coast and its dependencies..two great languages: Twi,..and a language which in its simplest form is spoken by the Moshi. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Sept. 692/3 The author's argument that the Twi people originally came from the grass country. 1955[see Fanti n. and a.]. 1972Bk. Thousand Tongues (rev. ed.) 441/1 The administrative term ‘Akan’ is used to denote all forms of Twi (Fante, Asante, and Akuapem)... In the 1850's, when Johannes Christaller translated the Bible into ‘Twi’, he chose..a form of the language which fell phonetically between the linguistic extremes of Fante and Asante-Akyem... Thus Scriptures were finally provided for the Twi. 1978Language LIV. 458, I would like to enumerate the contributions in terms of the languages treated:..one paper each on Bambara (David Dwyer), Twi (Lynette Nyaggah), Nupe (Isaac George), [etc.]. |