| Mesqan | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Ethiopia |
| Region | Gurage Zone |
Native speakers | 200,000 (2007)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
| |
| none | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mvz |
| Glottolog | mesq1240 |
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.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lab. | plain | lab. | plain | lab. | ||||
| Nasal | m | mʷ | n | ɲ | |||||
| Stop/ Affricate |
voiceless | t | t͡ʃ | k | kʷ | ||||
| voiced | b | bʷ | d | d͡ʒ | g | ɡʷ | |||
| ejective | tʼ | t͡ʃʼ | kʼ | kʼʷ | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | fʷ | s | ʃ | h | hʷ | ||
| voiced | z | ʒ | |||||||
| Rhotic | r | ||||||||
| Lateral | l | ||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Open | a |
References
- ↑ Mesqan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ Eshetu, Meseret (2012). Tense, aspect and mood in Mesqan. Addis Ababa University. pp. 19–20.
- ↑ Getachew, Alemayehu (2011). Mesqan folktales: A contribution to the documentation of the Mesqan language. Addis Ababa University. pp. 10–11.
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