Musgu language
| Musgu | |
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| Mulwi | |
| Native to | Cameroon, Chad |
| Ethnicity | Musgum |
Native speakers | 165,000 (1993–2005)[1] |
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Afro-Asiatic
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| Dialects |
Mpus
Beege (Jafga)
Vulum (Mulwi)
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
mug |
| Glottolog |
musg1254[2] |
Musgu is a Biu–Mandara (Chadic) language of Cameroon and Chad. The endonym is Mulwi. Blench (2006) classifies the three varieties as separate languages.[3] Speakers of the extinct related language Muskum have switched to one of these.
References
- ↑ Musgu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Musgu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)
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