Kaansa language
Not to be confused with Kansa language or Gã language.
| Kaan | |
|---|---|
| Kaansa | |
| Region | Burkina Faso |
Native speakers | (6,000 cited 1990)[1] |
|
Niger–Congo
| |
| Dialects |
|
| 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-based 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
- ↑ Kaan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kaansa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ "Mission: Burkina Faso," The Washington Times, Tuesday, December 30, 2008
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