Mesqan language

Mesqan
Mesqan
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	Gurage Zone
Native speakers	200,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic South Semitic Ethiopic South Ethiopic Outer South Ethiopic West Gurage Mesqan; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	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

		Labial		Alveolar	Palatal	Velar		Glottal
		plain	lab.	Alveolar	Palatal	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
Fricative	voiced			z	ʒ
Rhotic				r
Lateral				l
Approximant					j	w

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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