Musey language
Musey is a Chadic language of Chad and Cameroon. There is a degree of mutual intelligibility with Masana.
| Musey | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Chad, Cameroon |
Native speakers | 260,000 (2005–2006)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mse |
| Glottolog | muse1242[2] |
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 | ||||
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References
- Musey at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Musey". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Shryock, Aaron M. (1992). Consonants and tone in Musey. UCLA.
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