Kaansa language

Person	Kaan
People	Kaamba
Language	Kaansa

Kaansa
Kaansa
Gan
Kaansa
Region	Burkina Faso
Native speakers	(6,000 cited 1990)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Gur Southern Gur Doghose–Gan Kaansa; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Kaan-sa; Kpatogo-so;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gna
Glottolog	kaan1246

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.^[2]

^ Kaansa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ "Mission: Burkina Faso," The Washington Times, Tuesday, December 30, 2008

[e18-1] Kaansa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] "Mission: Burkina Faso," The Washington Times, Tuesday, December 30, 2008

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Kaansa
Gan
Kaansa
Region	Burkina Faso
Native speakers	(6,000 cited 1990)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Gur Southern Gur Doghose–Gan Kaansa
Dialects	Kaan-sa Kpatogo-so
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`gna`
Glottolog	`kaan1246`