Chinese, Gan
A language of China
| Population | 20,600,000 (1984). |
| Region | Jiangxi and southeast corner of Hubei including Dachi, Xianning, Jiayu, Chongyang, and parts of Anhui, Hunan, and Fujian provinces. Chang-Jing in Nanchang City, Xiuhui, and Jing’an; Yi-Liu in Yichun (Ichun) in Jiangxi, Liuyang in Hunan. |
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Southern China |
| Alternate names | Gan, Kan |
| Dialects | Chang-Jing, Yi-Liu, Ji-Cha, Fu-Guang, Ying-Yi. Marginally intelligible with Mandarin [cmn] and Wu [wuu] Chinese. |
| Classification | Sino-Tibetan, Chinese A member of macrolanguage Chinese [zho] (China). |
| Language development | Literacy rate in L1: 91%. |
| Writing system | Han script, Simplified variant. Han script, Traditional variant. |
| Comments | Most classified as Han nationality. |
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