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Mesqan
Mesqan
Mäsqan
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	Gurage Zone
Native speakers	200,000 (2007)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic South Semitic Ethiopic South Outer South West Gurage Mesqan; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Unwritten
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mvz
Glottolog	mesq1240

Mesqan language

Semitic language of Ethiopia

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.

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Mesqan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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Shafi, Ousman; Meyer, Ronny (2016). Mesqan.

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Eshetu, Meseret (2012). Tense, aspect and mood in Mesqan. Addis Ababa University. pp. 19–20.

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Getachew, Alemayehu (2011). Mesqan folktales: A contribution to the documentation of the Mesqan language. Addis Ababa University. pp. 10–11.

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		Labial		Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar		Glottal
		plain	lab.	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	plain	lab.	Glottal
Nasal		m	mʷ	n		ɲ
Stop/ Affricate	voiceless	(p)		t	t͡ʃ	c	k	kʷ
	voiced	b	bʷ	d	d͡ʒ	ɟ	g	ɡʷ
	ejective	(pʼ)		tʼ	t͡ʃʼ	cʼ	kʼ	kʼʷ
Fricative	voiceless	f	fʷ	s	ʃ	ç	x	xʷ	h
	voiced	(v)		z	ʒ
	ejective			(sʼ)
Rhotic				r
Lateral				l
Approximant						j	w

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	u
Mid	e	ə	o
Open		a

Mesqan_language

Mesqan language

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