The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue.
| Population | 20,580,000 2% of the population (1984). |
| Region | Jiangxi and southeastern corner of Hubei including Dachi, Xianning, Jiayu, Chongyang, and parts of Anhui, Hunan, and Fujian provinces. Chang-Jing dialect includes the speech of Nanchang City, Xiuhui, and Jing'an; Yi-Liu includes Yichun (Ichun) in Jiangxi to Liuyang in Hunan. |
| Alternate names | GAN, KAN |
| Dialects | CHANG-JING, YI-LIU, JI-CHA, FU-GUANG, YING-YI. |
| Classification | Sino-Tibetan, Chinese. |
| Comments | Marginally intelligible with Mandarin and Wu Chinese. Speakers are reported to be sufficiently bilingual in Standard Chinese (Mandarin) to use that literature. No written form apart from Standard Chinese. |
