Mesqan language

Mesqan
Native to Ethiopia
Region Gurage Zone
Native speakers
200,000 (2007)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
none
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mvz
Glottolog mesq1240[2]

Mesqan (also Mäsqan or Meskan) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by the Gurage people in the Gurage Zone of Ethiopia. It belongs to the family's Ethiopian Semitic branch.

References

  1. Mesqan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mesqan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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