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// a free, non-profit language archive

Woeji shikaa shi
woye Ga.

Speak it well, but we are Ga. Authentic Ga documents the language as it is actually spoken — by native speakers, for everyone who wants to learn.

  • 100+unique phrases
  • 2,000+dictionary words
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// the story

Why this archive exists

Authentic Ga began with a simple frustration. I'm a UK-born learner of Ga — the language of the Ga people of Accra, Ghana — and I kept hitting the same wall: there was almost nothing out there that taught the language the way it's actually spoken. Textbooks gave me grammar tables. Nobody gave me the sound of a grandmother correcting your tone on the word for water.

So I started recording. Family first — my own relatives, patient and generous with their voices. Then friends of the family, then community members across Accra and the diaspora. Every recording is made with a native speaker, checked by a native speaker, and shared free. This is not a classroom Ga. This is Ga as it lives in kitchens, markets, funerals, and greetings on the street.

The archive is non-profit and always will be. We document authentic spoken Ga so that heritage learners in London, Accra, and everywhere else can hear their language — and so that the language itself keeps a living record for the generations coming after us.

— Borteley, founder & lead learner

// phrase of the day

greeting beginner

Mii shikaa

/miː ʃiˈkaː/

"I am well." — the standard reply to Te oyɔɔ tɛŋŋ? (How are you?)

// grammar note

Mii is the progressive prefix (I am …-ing). Shikaa means well/fine. Together: "I am being well." Tone matters — a flat shikaa reads as a genuine reply; a dropped tone can sound dismissive. Listen to the recording twice, once at full speed and once at half.

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// the dictionary

Search 2,000+ words

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  • Te oyɔɔ tɛŋŋ?/te oˈjɔː tɛŋŋ/How are you?greetings
  • Mii shikaa/miː ʃiˈkaː/I am wellgreetings
  • Nye/ɲe/motherfamily
  • Tsɛ/tʃɛ/fatherfamily
  • Nyɛmimɛi/ɲɛmiˈmɛi/siblingsfamily
  • Nuu/nuː/waterfood
  • Kenkey/ˈkɛŋke/steamed corn dough, a Ga staplefood
  • Shito/ˈʃito/spicy black pepper saucefood
  • Kɛjɛ biɛ/kɛdʒɛ biˈɛ/come heredirections
  • Ya kɛ̃/ja kɛ̃/go theredirections
  • Mii-/miː/progressive prefix (I am …-ing)grammar
  • -mɛi/mɛi/plural suffix (people)grammar

// learn

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