KWA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kwa mean? 

• KWA (noun)
  The noun KWA has 1 sense:

1. a group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria

  Familiarity information: KWA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KWA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Kwa" is a kind of...):

Niger-Congo (a family of African language spoken in west Africa)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Kwa"):

Aku; Yoruba (a Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba in southwestern Nigeria)

Akan (a Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast)

Ewe (a Kwa language spoken by the Ewe in Ghana and Togo and Benin)