Guans

 The Guan people

The Guan people are an ethnic group found almost in all parts of Ghana, including the Gonja, Anum, Larteh, Nawuri, and Chumburu, whose ancestors founded the Gonja state. They primarily speak the Guang languages of the Niger-Congo language family.^[2]
Guans are believed to be the first settlers in the modern day Ghana that migrated from the Mossi region of modern Burkina around 1000 A.D.^[3] They are scattered across all the regions in Ghana. Guans speak distinct languages which are different from the major languages in Ghana except Gonja. However, some of these Guan languages are influenced by major languages in Ghana, depending on where a particular Guang tribe is located. Guans in the Eastern region include Anum, Boso, Larteh, Okere, and Kyerepong. Guans in the Volta Region include Akpafu/Lolobi, Buem, Nkonya, Likpe, Logba, Amedzofe, etc. In the central region we have the Efutu, Awutu and Senya in Winneba and Bawjiase areas. The Gonja people are in the North and part of Brong Ahafo. Guans being the first settlers in Ghana, some were assimilated into the cultures of the major ethnic groups in the various regions we have today. Thus, some indigenes of Kpeshie in Greater Accra and Nzema, Sefwi, Ahanta etc. in the Western region may also trace their roots to Guans. The indigenes of most of the Fantes in the central region including Asebu, Edna, Aguafo etc. as well as Agona can also trace their origins from Guans. At present it is accepted that the Guan people can be found in five regions in Ghana: Volta, Northern, Central, Eastern, and Brong Ahafo Regions.They are very tolerant and live as commoners in their various environment. They speak the languages of the major ethnic group where they ahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guang_peoplere found natively and speak their distinct languages at home. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guang_people

  the Nkonya people

Nkonya is a North Guang language in the Guang branch of the Volta-Comoé language group of the (New) Kwa branch of Niger-Congo.
The Guang languages by and large, are spoken in Ghana in an area roughly semi-circular in shape to the south, east and north of the Akans.
In the language itself, the language name is pronounced Nkunyá. A single speaker is an Okunyáyin with the plural being Nkunyáfɔ. The land where they live is also called Nkunyá. They live mainly in about 13 towns in the Volta Region, bordering on Lake Volta, between 7° 5" N and 7° 17" N and between 0° 15" E and 0° 22" E. This is an area along the Kpando-Worawora road from about 11 km north of Kpando up to (but not including) Kwamekrom, 34 km north of Kpando. The official ISO code (ISO 639-3) for Nkonya is nko.
There are about 20,000 people in the Nkonya area, of whom about 11,000 speak Nkonya as their first language. The majority of the non-Nkonya residents speak Ewe. The high proportion of non-Nkonya speakers to Nkonya speakers is a recent phenomenon. There are a large number of Nkonyas living outside Nkonya, perhaps as many as live in the traditional area. Most live in the larger urban areas of Ghana. Here's Nkonya within Ghana. Here is a map of Nkonya Towns.
There are elementary schools in all the Nkonya towns, and junior secondary schools in most towns. There is a secondary school in Nkonya-Ntumda. Because of the relatively high level of formal education and the large number of Nkonyas living outside of Nkonya, bilingualism in Akan and Ewe is high among Nkonyas. There are not many non-Nkonyas who speak Nkonya as a second language. There is much lexical borrowing from Akan and a lesser amount from English and Ewe. There are two mutually intelligible Nkonya dialects. The Northern dialect is spoken in Wurupong and towns north of it; the Southern dialect is spoken from Tepo to the south end of Nkonya.
Elderly Nkonyas report a greater mixing of the communities in recent years, and with greater communica-tion and intermarriage between the dialect communities, it would appear that the dialects are merging.
his section (maybe a separate page) will contain a History of Nkonya Language Project. Until then here is a picture of the Nkonya Language Team.