Mesqan language

Mesqan
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	Gurage Zone
Native speakers	200,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic South Ethiopian South Outer tt-Group Mesqan; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	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

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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