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Mazagway language

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Mazagway
Native toCameroon
RegionNorth Province, Far North Province
Native speakers
(17,000 cited 1997)[1]
Dialects
  • Kpala (Kola)
  • Mazagway (Musgoi)
Language codes
ISO 639-3dkx
Glottologmaza1304

Mazagway (Musgoy; also known as Mazagway-Hidi) is a Chadic language spoken in Cameroon in North Province and Far North Province. Blench (2006) classifies it as a dialect of Daba.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Mazagway at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)