Massa language
Massa (or Masana, Masa) is a Chadic language spoken in southern Chad and northern Cameroon by the Masa people. It has approximately 200,000 speakers.
Massa | |
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Masana | |
Native to | Chad, Cameroon |
Native speakers | (230,000 cited 1982–2006)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mcn |
Glottolog | masa1322 Masana[2]gize1234 Gizey[3]hama1241 Ham[4] |
Dialects are Bongor, Bugudum (Budugum), Domo, Gizay, Gumay, Ham, Walia, Wina (Viri), Yagwa.
Kim, a neighbouring language, was once misclassified as Masa.
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 | |||||
Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ɬ | h | ||
voiced | v | z | ɮ | ɦ | |||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||
Trill | r | ||||||
Approximant | w | l | j |
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References
- Massa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Masana". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gizey". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ham". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- De Dominicis, Amedeo (2001). The Masa tonal system. University of Tuscia, Viterbo (Italy).
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