Mesme language

Mesmé
Zime
Native to	Chad
Native speakers	20,000 (1993 census)^[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic Masa South Mesmé
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`zim`
Glottolog	`mesm1239`^[2]

Mesmé is an Afro-Asiatic language of Chad. Zime (Djime) is a generic name.

References

↑ Mesmé at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mesme". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Masa languages

North	Azumeina Massa Musey Zumaya

South	Mesmé Ngeté-Herdé Pévé

Italics indicate extinct languages

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