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Gan, n.2 (and a.)|gæn| Also Kan. [a. Chinese Gàn, another name for the Jiangxi province in S.E. China.] The Chinese dialect spoken in the Jiangxi province and in south-eastern areas of Hubei province. Also attrib. or as adj.
1943China Handbk. i. 30 The Kan-Hakka group is spoken mainly in Kiangsi and Kwangtung... The Northern or Kan group has the tendency to pronounce all aspirated surds as voiced in connected speech. 1961Chang-tu Hu et al. China v. 100 Kan, spoken by eight million people in northern Kiangsi. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVI. 801/1 The Northern languages (or Mandarin dialects) are closer to each other than the Southern ones (Wu, Hsiang, Kan, Yüeh, Min). 1987M. Ruhlen Guide to World's Langs. I. iv. 143 Some 927 million total Chinese speakers..with a distribution roughly as follows: Mandarin (680), Wu (69),..Gan (21), [etc.]. |