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{{Infobox Ethnic group
|group = Ga-Adangbe people
|image = [[File:Ga people.JPG|350px]]
|caption = [[Marcel Desailly]], [[Ike Quartey]], [[George Ayittey]], [[Joseph Arthur Ankrah]]
|poptime = 2 million people 8% of Ghana's population
|popplace = Predominantly in Greater [[Accra]] Region, Eastern Region of [[Ghana]] and [[Togo]], as well as the [[United Kingdom]], [[Germany]], the [[United States of America]], and [[Canada]]
|langs = [[Ga language]], [[Adangme language|Ga adangme]]
|rels = [[Ga Spirituality]], [[Christianity]], [[Islam]]
}}
The '''Ga-Adangbe''' people inhabit the [[Accra Plains]]. The Adangbe are found to the east, the Ga groups, to the west of the Accra coastlands. Although both languages are derived from a common proto-Ga-Adangbe ancestral language, modern Ga and Adangbe are mutually unintelligible. The modern Adangbe include the people of Shai, La, Ningo, Kpone, Osudoku, Krobo, Gbugble, and Ada, who speak different dialects. The Ga also include the Ga-Mashie groups occupying neighborhoods in the central part of [[Accra]], and other Gaspeakers who migrated from Akwamu, Anecho in Togo, Akwapim, and surrounding areas.

Debates persist about the origins of the Ga-Adangbe people. One school of thought suggests that the proto-Ga-Adangbe people came from somewhere east of the Accra plains, while another suggests a distant locale beyond the West African coast. In spite of such historical and linguistic theories, it is agreed that the people were settled in the plains by the thirteenth century. Both the Ga and the Adangbe were influenced by their neighbors. For example, both borrowed some of their vocabulary, especially words relating to economic activities and statecraft, from the [[Guan]]. The [[Ewe]] are also believed to have influenced the Adangbe.

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imported>Kofi at 16:46, 25 September 2010