Sino-Tibetan · ISO 639-3 gan
Gan Chinese Language 贛語
Gan Chinese is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by about 24 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Traditional Han script.
Where Gan Chinese is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Gan Chinese
Language family
- Sino-Tibetan
- Sinitic
- Classical-Middle-Modern Sinitic
- Middle-Modern Sinitic
- Gan Chinese
Writing system
Traditional Han script
Related languages
About the Gan Chinese language
Gan Chinese (贛語) is spoken by about 24 million people, which makes it the 67th most spoken language in the world — just behind North Azerbaijani (24 million) and ahead of Tagalog (24 million). It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family and, more precisely, to the Middle-Modern Sinitic group within the Classical-Middle-Modern Sinitic branch.
Where is Gan Chinese spoken?
Gan Chinese is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in China (24 million).
Gan Chinese is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Gan Chinese is written in the Traditional Han script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Mandarin Chinese, Wu Chinese, Yue Chinese, Jinyu Chinese, Hakka Chinese, Xiang Chinese and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 gan.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.