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
diacritic
A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek (, "distinguishing"), from (, "to distinguish"). The word ''diacriti ...
s (the language has four tones) was developed beginning in the 1990s with the help of Stuart and Cathie Showalter, an American missionary couple.
"Mission: Burkina Faso,"
The Washington Times, Tuesday, December 30, 2008
References
Gur languages
Languages of Burkina Faso
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