Kaansa language

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Name (Latin)
Kaansa language
Other forms of name
Gã language (Burkina Faso)
Gan language (Burkina Faso)
Gane language (Burkina Faso)
Kaan language (Burkina Faso)
Kaanse language
Kãasa language (Burkina Faso)
Kan language (Burkina Faso)
See Also From tracing topical name
Gur languages
See Also From tracing place name
Burkina Faso
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata: Q56802
Library of congress: sh2010005731
Sources of Information
  • Ethnologue, 2009
  • OCLC, March 17, 2010
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Wikipedia description:

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.

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