Mire language

Mire language
Mire
Spoken in Chad
Region Southwest
Native speakers 1,400  (1990)
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mvh

Mire is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the southwestern Chadian prefectures of Tandjile Prefecture and Lai Prefecture.[1] Most of the speakers, who generally practice traditional religions or Christianity, speak Ndam (65% lexical similarity) or Kimré (32% lexical similarity) as a second language.

References

  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr., ed (2005). "Ethnologue report for language code:mvh". Ethnologue, Languages of the World. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=mvh. Retrieved 2008-06-30. 

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