Musey is a Chadic language of Chad and Cameroon. There is a degree of mutual intelligibility with Masana. Although Musey and Masa are mutually unintelligible, many Musey speakers also speak Masa.[2]
| Musey | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Chad, Cameroon |
Native speakers | 430,000 (2005–2019)[1] |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mse |
| Glottolog | muse1242 |
Distribution
editMusey is spoken east of Guéré, in the southern part of Mayo-Danay commune in Danay department, Far North Region, by 20,000 speakers in Cameroon. It is also spoken in Chad.[2]
Phonology
editReferences
edit- ↑ Musey at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- 1 2 Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) [Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Vol. 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN 9789956796069.
- ↑ Duncanson, Robert (1972). Interpreting tone in the Musey language. University of North Dakota.
- ↑ Shryock, Aaron M. (1992). Consonants and tone in Musey. UCLA.
External links
edit- Musey language materials from UCLA
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