Musey language

Musey
Native to Chad, Cameroon
Native speakers
 260,000 (2005–2006)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mse
Glottolog muse1242[2]

Musey is a Chadic language of Chad and Cameroon. There is a degree of mutual intelligibility with Masana.

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Alveolar Lateral Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive voiceless p t tʃ k
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
Close i u
Mid e o
Open a

[3]

References

  1. ↑ Musey at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Musey". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Shryock, Aaron M. (1992). Consonants and tone in Musey. UCLA.


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