Musey_language

Musey language

Musey language

Chadic language of Chad and Cameroon

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.[2]

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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.[2]

Phonology

Consonants

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Vowels

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Lax allophones of /i u e o/ occur as [ɪ ʊ ɛ ɔ].[3][4]

References

  1. [1]
    Musey at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. [2]
    Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) [Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Vol. 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN 9789956796069.
  3. [3]
    Duncanson, Robert (1972). Interpreting tone in the Musey language. University of North Dakota.
  4. [4]
    Shryock, Aaron M. (1992). Consonants and tone in Musey. UCLA.


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