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Tones

Fante, like all other varieties of Twi-Fante, has two contrastive tones, high tone (H) and low tone (L).

Orthography

Fante has a relatively phonemic orthography. It uses the following letters to indicate the following phonemes:

Consonants

Fante makes heavy use of digraphs, including ky (/tc/), gy (/dz/), hy (/c/), tw (/tcw/), dw (/dzw/), hw (/cw/), and kw (/kw/). However, labialization is symbolized in other labialized consonants

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