{{Short description|Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Myanmar}} {{Infobox language | name = Ganan | altname = Kanan | states = Myanmar | region = Sagaing Region | ethnicity = | speakers = 9,000 | date = 2007 | ref = e18 | familycolor = Sino-Tibetan | fam2 = Tibeto-Burman | fam3 = Sal | fam4 = Jingpho–Luish | fam5 = Luish | iso3 = zkn | glotto = gana1267 | glottorefname = Ganaan | map = Lang Status 40-SE.svg | mapcaption = {{center|{{small|Ganan is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO ''Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger''}}}} }}
'''Ganan''' ({{langx|my|ကနန်း}}; also spelled as '''Ganaan''' or '''Kanan''') is a Sino-Tibetan language of northwestern Myanmar, spoken in Sagaing Region.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2016 |title=Myanmar |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/country/MM/languages |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010180533/http://www.ethnologue.com/country/MM/languages |archive-date=2016-10-10 |website=Ethnologue: Languages of the World}}</ref> It belongs to the Luish branch, and is most closely related to the Kadu language of Myanmar, with which it shares 84 to 89% lexical similarity.<ref name=":0" /> The Ganan dialects share 95 to 99% lexical similarity.<ref name=":0" />
== Phonology == === Vowels === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! !Front !Central !Back |- !Close |{{IPA link|i}} | |{{IPA link|u}} |- !Close-mid |{{IPA link|e}} | |{{IPA link|o}} |- !Open-mid |{{IPA link|ɛ}} |{{IPA link|ɜ}} |{{IPA link|ɔ}} |- !Open | |{{IPA link|a}} | |}
=== Consonants === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! colspan="2" | ! Bilabial ! Alveolar ! Alveolo-palatal ! Palatal ! Velar ! Glottal |- ! rowspan="2" | Stop ! <small>Voiceless</small> |{{IPA link|p}} |{{IPA link|t}} | | |{{IPA link|k}} |{{IPA link|ʔ}} |- ! <small>Voiced</small> |{{IPA link|b}} |{{IPA link|d}} | | |{{IPA link|ɡ}} | |- ! rowspan="2" | Fricative ! <small>Voiceless</small> | |{{IPA link|s}} |{{IPA link|ɕ}} | | |{{IPA link|h}} |- ! <small>Voiced</small> | |{{IPA link|z}} |{{IPA link|ʑ}} | | | |- ! colspan="2" | Nasal |{{IPA link|m}} |{{IPA link|n}} | |{{IPA link|ɲ}} |{{IPA link|ŋ}} | |- ! colspan="2" | Approximant | |{{IPA link|l}} | |{{IPA link|j}} |{{IPA link|w}} | |}
==Names== ''Ethnologue'' lists ''Ganaan, Ganan, Ganon, Genan, Kanan'' as alternate names.
==Distribution== According to ''Ethnologue'', as of 2007 Ganan is spoken in 24 villages of Banmauk Township along the Mu River by 9,000 people in Katha District, Sagaing Region, Myanmar.<ref name=":0" /> It is also located in a few villages in Homalin, Indaw, and Pinlebu townships.<ref name=":0" />
==References== {{reflist}} *Huziwara, Keisuke 藤原, 敬介. 2012. [http://hdl.handle.net/2433/182194 Rui sogo no saikou ni mukete ルイ祖語の再構にむけて] [Toward a reconstruction of Proto-Luish]. In ''Kyoto University Linguistic Research'' 京都大学言語学研究 (2012), 31: 25-131. {{doi|10.14989/182194}} *Matisoff, James A. 2013. [https://www.academia.edu/16300693/Re-examining_the_genetic_position_of_Jingpho_putting_flesh_on_the_bones_of_the_Jinghpho_Luish_Relationship Re-examining the genetic position of Jingpho: putting flesh on the bones of the Jingpho/Luish relationship]. ''Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area'' 36(2). 1–106.
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