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Definition of Fante in English: Fante(also Fanti) nounPlural Fantisˈfantiˈfäntē 1A member of a people of southern Ghana. Example sentencesExamples - His mother was from the Fante tribe on the Cape Coast of Ghana and his father was half Fante, half Ashanti; Annan could have become a chief of either tribe.
- The Fante teasingly refer to the Asante as ‘bush people.’
- Getting trained African staff was a problem because the local natives were, generally speaking, much less educated than the Fantis of the Gold Coast.
- Both areas are predominantly Akan speaking, but with some cultural variation between the Fante in the Cape Coast area and the Brong of the Techiman area.
- Many coastal Ghanaian peoples like the Fante, Ga, and Ewe have not forgotten Asante violence against them, even though the national history textbooks celebrate Asante resistance against the British.
2mass noun The dialect of Akan spoken by the Fante. Example sentencesExamples - I can understand, read, and speak Fante and Twi fairly well but have less intricate knowledge of Ga and Bono.
- This was banned from radio play at the time because the radio stations that couldn't speak Ambolley's language, Fanti, assumed that the song was obscene!
- While most publications in the Ghanaian and Ghanaian American communities are written in English, some are also written in the Twi dialects of Asante, Fante, and Akwapim and in other languages such as Ewe, Ga, Dagbane, and Nzema.
adjectiveˈfantiˈfäntē Relating to the Fante or their language. Example sentencesExamples - For example, Fante villagers may eat fish and bangu, a fermented corn dish, for breakfast.
- A sudden international demand for sugar allowed Jamaica to grow rich and powerful as more and more slaves, mainly Fante, Ashanti, Ibo and Yoruba people, were imported to the island to expand the plantations.
- The image recalls the Bentsir oral tradition about the reaction of the Asante army when they first arrived on the Fante coast from the forested interior.
- The Asante, Ewe, Fon and Fante peoples provided the bulk of imports into Barbados.
- In 1844, Fanti chiefs in the area signed an agreement with the British that became the legal steppingstone to colonial status for the coastal area.
Rhymes Alicante, andante, ante, anti, Ashanti, Bramante, Chianti, Dante, dilettante, Ferranti, infante, scanty, shanty (US chanty), spumante, vigilante, Zante Definition of Fante in US English: Fante(also Fanti) nounˈfäntē 1A member of a people of southern Ghana. Example sentencesExamples - His mother was from the Fante tribe on the Cape Coast of Ghana and his father was half Fante, half Ashanti; Annan could have become a chief of either tribe.
- Both areas are predominantly Akan speaking, but with some cultural variation between the Fante in the Cape Coast area and the Brong of the Techiman area.
- Many coastal Ghanaian peoples like the Fante, Ga, and Ewe have not forgotten Asante violence against them, even though the national history textbooks celebrate Asante resistance against the British.
- The Fante teasingly refer to the Asante as ‘bush people.’
- Getting trained African staff was a problem because the local natives were, generally speaking, much less educated than the Fantis of the Gold Coast.
2The dialect of Akan spoken by the Fante. Example sentencesExamples - I can understand, read, and speak Fante and Twi fairly well but have less intricate knowledge of Ga and Bono.
- This was banned from radio play at the time because the radio stations that couldn't speak Ambolley's language, Fanti, assumed that the song was obscene!
- While most publications in the Ghanaian and Ghanaian American communities are written in English, some are also written in the Twi dialects of Asante, Fante, and Akwapim and in other languages such as Ewe, Ga, Dagbane, and Nzema.
adjectiveˈfäntē Relating to the Fante or their language. Example sentencesExamples - For example, Fante villagers may eat fish and bangu, a fermented corn dish, for breakfast.
- A sudden international demand for sugar allowed Jamaica to grow rich and powerful as more and more slaves, mainly Fante, Ashanti, Ibo and Yoruba people, were imported to the island to expand the plantations.
- The Asante, Ewe, Fon and Fante peoples provided the bulk of imports into Barbados.
- The image recalls the Bentsir oral tradition about the reaction of the Asante army when they first arrived on the Fante coast from the forested interior.
- In 1844, Fanti chiefs in the area signed an agreement with the British that became the legal steppingstone to colonial status for the coastal area.
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