Ganaʼ language

Ganaʼ
Ganaq
Native toMalaysia
RegionSabah
Ethnicity2,000 (2013)[1]
Native speakers
250 (2013)[1]
Unwritten; informal Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3gnq
Glottologgana1277
ELPGana

Ganaʼ (Gana, Ganaq) is an Austronesian language of Sabah, Malaysia.

Since Ganaʼ 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.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Ganaʼ at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Lobel, Jason William (2013). Philippine and North Bornean languages: Issues in Description, Subgrouping, and Reconstruction (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). University of Hawai'i at Manoa. p. 395.
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