Ganan (also spelled as Ganaan or Kanan) is a
Sino-Tibetan language
Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Chinese languages. ...
of northwestern Myanmar. It belongs to the
Luish branch, and is most closely related to the
Kadu language
Kadu or Kado is a Sino-Tibetan language of the Sal branch spoken in Sagaing Region, Myanmar. Dialects are Settaw, Mawkhwin, and Mawteik xtinct with 30,000 speakers total.
Names
Alternate names for Kadu listed in ''Ethnologue'' are Gadu, Ka’d ...
of Myanmar.
Names
''Ethnologue'' lists ''Ganaan, Ganan, Ganon, Genan, Kanan'' as alternate names.
Distribution
According to ''Ethnologue'', as of 2007 Ganan is spoken in 24 villages of
Banmauk Township
Banmauk Township is a township in Katha District in the Sagaing Region of Myanmar. along the
Mu River by 9,000 people in Katha District,
Sagaing Region
Sagaing Region ( my, စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Sagaing Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the north-western part of the country between latitude 21° 30' north and lon ...
, Myanmar. It is also located in a few villages in
Homalin
Homalin or Hommalinn ( my, ဟုမ္မလင်း မြို့ ) (Shan: ႁုင်းမၢၵ်ႇလၢင်း) is a small town in north-western Burma and capital of the Homalin Township in Hkamti District of the Sagaing Region. The ...
,
Indaw
Indaw ( shn, ဝဵင်းဢၢင်းတေႃႇ)is a town in northern Burma, in Sagaing Division, Katha District, Indaw Township. It is located about 2 km south-east of Indaw Lake. The rail junction at Naba is located about 6 k ...
, and
Pinlebu townships (''Ethnologue'').
References
*Huziwara, Keisuke 藤原, 敬介. 2012
Rui sogo no saikou ni mukete ルイ祖語の再構にむけて oward a reconstruction of Proto-Luish In ''Kyoto University Linguistic Research'' 京都大学言語学研究 (2012), 31: 25-131.
*Matisoff, James A. 2013
Re-examining the genetic position of Jingpho: putting flesh on the bones of the Jingpho/Luish relationship ''Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area'' 36(2). 1–106.
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Sal languages
Languages of Myanmar