Musey language

Chadic language of Chad and Cameroon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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]

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Distribution

Musey 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

Consonants

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Labial Alveolar Lateral Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive voiceless p t k ʔ
voiced b d ɡ
implosive ɓ ɗ
prenasalized mb nd nd͡ʒ ŋɡ
Fricative voiceless f s ɬ h
voiced v z ɮ ɦ
Nasal m n ŋ
Flap ɾ
Approximant w l j
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Vowels

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Lax allophones of /i u e o/ occur as [ɪ ʊ ɛ ɔ].[3][4]

References

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