Musgu language

Musgu
Mulwi
Native to Cameroon, Chad
Ethnicity Musgum
Native speakers
165,000 (1993–2005)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Dialects
Mpus
Beege (Jafga)
Vulum (Mulwi)
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

  1. Musgu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Musgu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)


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