Masa languages
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The Masa languages are a group of a dozen closely related Chadic languages
of West Africa. They are,
The exonym Zime is used for the Herdé, Ngeté, Pévé, and Mesmé.
Chadic languages
The Chadic languages constitute a language family of perhaps 200 languages spoken across northern Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic and Cameroon, belonging to the Afroasiatic phylum...
of West Africa. They are,
- Herdé
- PévéPeve languagePévé, also Lamé after its chief dialect, is an Afro-Asiatic language of Chad and Cameroon. Zime is a generic name....
- MassaMassa languageMassa is a language spoken in southern Chad and northern Cameroon. It is a Chadic language with approximately 200,000 speakers.-External links:***...
(Masana) - Mesmé
- MarbaMarba language-References:**...
- MuseyMusey languageMusey is an Afro-Asiatic language of Chad and Cameroon. There is a degree of mutual intelligibility with Masana....
- Ngeté
- ZumayaZumaya languageZumaya is a moribund Chadic language spoken in Cameroon.-External links:***...
(nearly extinct)
The exonym Zime is used for the Herdé, Ngeté, Pévé, and Mesmé.
External links
- Masa Chadic resources at africanlanguages.org