Musey language
Appearance
Musey | |
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Native to | Chad, Cameroon |
Native speakers | 430,000 (2019)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mse |
Glottolog | muse1242 |
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]
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
Labial | Alveolar | Lateral | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | ʔ | |
voiced | b | d | dʒ | 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 |
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | u | |
Mid | e | o | |
Open | a |
Lax allophones of /i u e o/ occur as [ɪ ʊ ɛ ɔ].[3][4]
References
- ^ Musey at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ a b 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
- Musey language materials from UCLA