Kaansa language

Kaansa
Kaansa
Region Burkina Faso
Native speakers
 (6,000 cited 1990)[1]
Niger–Congo
Dialects
  • Kaan-sa
  • Kpatogo-so
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gna
Glottolog kaan1246[2]
Person Kaan
People Kaamba
Language Kaansa

Kaansa, also known as Gan (Gã), is a Gur language of Burkina Faso.

A Latin script orthography with 29 letters (including extended characters) and three diacritics (the language has four tones) was developed beginning in the 1990s with the help of Stuart and Cathie Showalter, an American missionary couple.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Kaansa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kaansa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ "Mission: Burkina Faso," The Washington Times, Tuesday, December 30, 2008
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