Mesqan language
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.
| Mesqan | |
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| Native to | Ethiopia |
| Region | Gurage Zone |
Native speakers | 200,000 (2007)[1] |
| none | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mvz |
| Glottolog | mesq1240[2] |
References
- Mesqan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- 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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