Ganaʼ language
Gana’ | |
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Ganaq | |
Native to | Malaysia |
Region | Sabah |
Ethnicity | 2,000 (2013)[1] |
Native speakers | 250 (2013)[1] |
Unwritten; informal Latin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | gnq |
Glottolog | gana1277 |
ELP | Gana |
Gana’ (Gana, Ganaq) is an Austronesian language of Sabah, Malaysia.
Since Gana and Kujau, a Dusunic language, are both spoken in and around Keningau town, Gana has a significant proportion of Dusunic loanwords, although it is originally a Murutic language (Lobel 2013:395).
References
- ^ a b Gana’ at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
- Lobel, Jason William. 2013. Philippine and North Bornean languages: issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction. Ph.D. dissertation. Manoa: University of Hawai'i at Manoa.