Akan Twi Alphabet has 10 vowels as shown below. Akan Twi has two different A/a (not ah) sound. One is pharyngeal and the other is glottic. Glottic A/a sound is represented in Latin as E/e.
There are two subset of vowels in Akan known as +ATR and -ATR. Each subset of vowels contain 5 vowels. The phenomenon in which vowels in each subset of 5 occurs together or changes the preceding vowel to a vowel within each subset is known as vowel harmony.
| Comparison | Table | |||
| Vowel | Adinkra | Adinkra | Akan | English |
| A/a | A | aCduanEC | Aduane | Food |
| A/a | a | aqaaba | Akwaaba | Welcome |
| E/e | E | EtirE | Etire | Head |
| E/e | I | dIn | Den | Hard |
| I/i | i | din | Din | Name |
| O/o | o | onipa | Onipa | Person |
| O/o | O | akoCma | Akoma | Heart |
| U/u | u | toC mu | To mu | Close |
| c | kc | Ko | Go | |
| e | fre | Fre | Call |
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