The (West) Kwa languages are spoken in the south-eastern part of Côte d'Ivoire, across southern Ghana, and in central Togo. They include the Akan languages. The term was introduced 1885 by Krause and used by Westermann (1952) and Greenberg (1963), at times including the languages of central Nigeria which are now classified as Volta-Niger languages. The name Kwa's derived from the word for 'people' in many of these languages, which contains the root kwa. The Kwa family's a primary branch o… (More on Kwa)