Gan language
Appearance
Gan | |
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贛語/赣语 Gon ua | |
![]() Gan ua (Gan) written in Chinese characters | |
Native to | China |
Region | central and northern Jiangxi, eastern Hunan, eastern Hubei, southern Anhui, northwest Fujian |
Ethnicity | Gan people (Han Chinese) |
Native speakers | 22 million (2007)[1] |
Early forms | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | gan |
Glottolog | ganc1239 |
Linguasphere | 79-AAA-f |
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Gan is the language of Jiangxi and some others provinces in China.
It is spoken by 20 to 50 million people in southern China.
Gan has 9 dialects, and Nangchang dialect is representative.
Dialects
[change | change source]- Chang-Jing (昌靖片)
- Yi-Liu (宜瀏片)
- Ji-Cha (吉茶片)
- Fu-Guang (撫廣片)
- Ying-Yi (鷹弋片)
- Da-Tong (大通片)
- Lei-Zi (耒資片)
- Dong-Sui (洞綏片)
- Huai-Yue (懷嶽片)
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Mikael Parkvall, "Världens 100 största språk 2007" (The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007), in Nationalencyklopedin
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