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Musey language

{{Short description|Chadic language of Chad and Cameroon}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Musey

|states=Chad, Cameroon

|speakers={{sigfig|433,000|2}}

|date=2005–2019

|ref=e25

|script=Latin

|familycolor=Afro-Asiatic

|fam2=Chadic

|fam3=Masa

|fam4=North

|fam5=Musey–Azumeina

|iso3=mse

|glotto=muse1242

|glottorefname=Musey

}}

Musey is a Chadic language of Chad and Cameroon. There is a degree of mutual intelligibility with Masana. Although Musey and Masa are mutually unintelligible, many Musey speakers also speak Masa.

Distribution

Musey is spoken east of Guéré, in the southern part of Mayo-Danay commune in Danay department, Far North Region, by 20,000 speakers in Cameroon. It is also spoken in Chad.{{cite book|editor-last=Binam Bikoi|editor-first=Charles|date=2012|title=Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM)|trans-title=Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon|volume=1: Inventaire des langues|language=fr|location=Yaoundé|publisher=CERDOTOLA|series=Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC)|isbn=9789956796069}}

Phonology

= Consonants =

class="wikitable"

! colspan="2" |

!Labial

!Alveolar

!Lateral

!Palatal

!Velar

!Glottal

align="center"

! rowspan="4" |Plosive

!voiceless

|p

|t

|

|tʃ

|k

|ʔ

align="center"

!voiced

|b

|d

|

|dʒ

|ɡ

|

align="center"

!implosive

|ɓ

|ɗ

|

|

|

|

align="center"

!prenasalized

|mb

|nd

|

|nd͡ʒ

|ŋɡ

|

align="center"

! rowspan="2" |Fricative

!voiceless

|f

|s

|ɬ

|

|

|h

align="center"

!voiced

|v

|z

|ɮ

|

|

|ɦ

align="center"

! colspan="2" |Nasal

|m

|n

|

|

|ŋ

|

align="center"

! colspan="2" |Flap

|

|ɾ

|

|

|

|

align="center"

! colspan="2" |Approximant

|w

|

|l

|j

|

|

= Vowels =

class="wikitable"

!

!Front

!Central

!Back

align="center"

!Close

|i

|

|u

align="center"

!Mid

|e

|

|o

align="center"

!Open

|

|a

|

Lax allophones of /i u e o/ occur as [ɪ ʊ ɛ ɔ].{{Cite book|last=Duncanson|first=Robert|title=Interpreting tone in the Musey language|publisher=University of North Dakota|year=1972}}{{Cite book|title=Consonants and tone in Musey|last=Shryock|first=Aaron M.|publisher=UCLA|year=1992}}

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

  • [http://aflang.humanities.ucla.edu/language-materials/afro-asiatic-languages/chadic-languages/musey/ Musey language materials] from UCLA

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Category:Chadic languages

Category:Languages of Chad

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