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Gan language

Chinese language
Also known as: Kan language
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Gan language, Chinese language of the Sino-Tibetan language family spoken primarily in Jiangxi province and the southeastern corner of Hubei province. According to some scholars, there are five primary dialects: Changjing, Yiping, Jiliang, Fuguang, and Yingyi. Gan is somewhat intelligible with Mandarin and Wu, but it has much in common with the Hakka language. Gan and Hakka are sometimes considered a single subgroup, the Gan-Hakka (Kan-Hakka) languages.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.