Kaansa language

Kaansa
Gan
Kaansa
RegionBurkina Faso
Native speakers
(6,000 cited 1990)[1]
Niger–Congo?
Dialects
  • Kaan-sa
  • Kpatogo-so
Language codes
ISO 639-3gna
Glottologkaan1246
PersonKaan
PeopleKaamba
LanguageKaansa

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]

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