Gan language
member of the Sinitic languages of the Sino-Tibetan language family spoken as the native language by the people in the Jiangxi province of China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gan is the language of Jiangxi and some others provinces in China.
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Gan | |
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贛語/赣语 Gon ua | |
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 | Old Chinese
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | gan |
Glottolog | ganc1239 |
Linguasphere | 79-AAA-f |
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It is spoken by 20 to 50 million people in southern China.
Gan has 9 dialects, and Nangchang dialect is representative.