Mesqan | |
---|---|
Mäsqan | |
Native to | Ethiopia |
Region | Gurage Zone |
Native speakers | 200,000 (2007) [1] |
Unwritten | |
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.
Labial | Alveolar |
Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
plain | lab. | plain | lab. | ||||||
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 |