Gan (linguistics)
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| Gan 赣语 | ||
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| Spoken in: | China | |
| Region: | Jiangxi Province | |
| Total speakers: | 20 million | |
| Ranking: | 45 | |
| Language family: | Sino-Tibetan Chinese Gan | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | zh | |
| ISO 639-2: | chi (B) | zho (T) |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | gan | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Gan (赣语) is one of the major divisions of spoken Chinese, concentrated in and typical of Jiangxi Province.
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[edit] Classification
Like all other varieties of Chinese, there is plenty of dispute as to whether Gan is a language or a dialect. Please see Identification of the varieties of Chinese for the issues surrounding this dispute.
[edit] Geographical distribution
Gan is spoken over most of the northern two-thirds of Jiangxi Province, as well as smaller areas in Anhui, Fujian, Hunan and Hubei.
[edit] Dialects
The Nanchang variety is the canonical representative of the group. The mountainous geography of Jiangxi has resulted in a high degree of fragmentation, with many mutually unintelligible varieties. Speakers typically identify their speech as being that of a particular county, e.g., Wannianese, rather than Gan in general.
[edit] Writing system
Gan has no form of writing beyond Vernacular Chinese, which is used by all Chinese speakers.<ref name=Ethnologue>Ethnologue report on Gan</ref>
[edit] Note
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[edit] External links
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| Categories: |
Gan | Hakka | Hui | Jin | Mandarin | Min | Ping | Xiang | Wu | Cantonese | |||
| Subcategories of Min: | Min Bei | Min Dong | Min Nan | Min Zhong | Puxian | Qiongwen | Shaojiang | |||
| Subcategories of Mandarin: | Northeastern | Beijing | Ji-Lu | Jiao-Liao | Zhongyuan | Lan-Yin | Southwestern | Jianghuai | Dungan | |||
| Note: The above is only one classification scheme among many. The categories in italics are not universally acknowledged to be independent categories. | ||||
| Comprehensive list of Chinese dialects | ||||
| Official spoken varieties: | Standard Mandarin | Standard Cantonese | |||
| Historical phonology: | Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Proto-Min | Proto-Mandarin | Haner | |||
| Chinese: written varieties | ||||
| Official written varieties: | Classical Chinese | Vernacular Chinese | |||
| Other varieties: | Written Vernacular Cantonese | |||
