Musgu
Musgu is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Cameroon and Chad.
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Musgu is a cluster of closely related language varieties of the Biu–Mandara subgroup of the Chadic languages spoken in Cameroon and Chad. The endonym is Mulwi. Blench (2006) classifies the three varieties as separate languages. Speakers of the extinct related language Muskum have switched to one of these.
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Words in Musgu
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | dif* | |
| name | yiki* | |
| eye | aray* | |
| ear | slime* | |
| nose | merfeN* | |
| tooth | sisiyen* | |
| tongue | ales* | |
| hand | tiy* | |
| blood | fel* | |
| bone | keslke* | |
| skin | am3r* | |
| knee | kurnay* | |
| breast | d3d3k* | |
| liver | asleslet* | |
| water | yim | |
| fire | afu* | |
| sun | f3tiy* | |
| star | mezlek* | |
| mountain | huwuN* | |
| tree | luwuN* | |
| leaf | sl3maniluwuN* | |
| night | d3v3k* | |
| dog | hirge* | |
| fish | hilif* | |
| louse | N3rsa* | |
| one | day* | |
| two | sulu* | |
| I | ta* | |
| you | tuku* | |
| we | tumu* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- Mbara (Chad)Afro-Asiatic25% alike
- North GizigaAfro-Asiatic16% alike
- MolokoAfro-Asiatic15% alike
- WuzlamAfro-Asiatic15% alike
- MereyAfro-Asiatic14% alike
- GidarAfro-Asiatic14% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
Nearby languages
Elsewhere
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