Gana’ language

Gana’
	Ganaq
Native to	Malaysia
Region	Sabah
Ethnicity	2,000 (2013)[1]
Native speakers	250 (2013)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian North Bornean Southwest Sabahan Murutic Northern Gana’; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Unwritten; informal Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gnq
Glottolog	gana1277[2]

Gana’ (Gana, Ganaq) is an Austronesian language of Sabah, Malaysia.

Since Gana and Kujau, a Dusunic language, are both spoken in and around Keningau town, Gana has a significant proportion of Dusunic loanwords, although it is originally a Murutic language (Lobel 2013:395).

References

1 2 Gana’ at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gana (Malaysia)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Lobel, Jason William. 2013. Philippine and North Bornean languages: issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction. Ph.D. dissertation. Manoa: University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

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[e19-1] 1 2 Gana’ at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gana (Malaysia)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.