Ganaʼ language

Ganaʼ
Ganaʼ
Ganaq
Native to	Malaysia
Region	Sabah
Ethnicity	2,000 (2013)[1]
Native speakers	250 (2013)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian North Bornean Southwest Sabahan Murutic Northern Ganaʼ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Unwritten; informal Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gnq
Glottolog	gana1277
ELP	Gana

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

Ganaʼ at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
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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[e19-1] Ganaʼ at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)

[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.