Gan (language)
| Gan | ||
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Spoken in |
People's Republic of China | |
| speaker | approx. 20 million (1984) | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
zh (Chinese languages) |
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| ISO 639 -2 | ( B ) chi (Chinese languages) | ( T ) zho (Chinese languages) |
| ISO 639-3 |
gan, zho (macro language, Chinese languages) |
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Gan ( Chinese 贛 語 / 赣 语 , Pinyin Gànyǔ ) is a Chinese Sino- Tibetan language . This language is mainly used in the provinces of Jiangxi and Hubei . There are also many speakers in some parts of Hunan , Anhui, and Fujian . The language is named after the Gan River .
Dialect forms of the language are Chang-Jing, Yi-Liu, Ji-Cha, Fu-Guang and Ying-Yi.
The language is written using the Chinese writing system .
See also
Web links
Commons : 贛 語 - album with pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ SIL (Ed.): Ethnologue report for language code: gan . In: Ethnologue, 15th edition