Mesqan language

Mesqan language
Mesqan
Spoken in Ethiopia
Region West Gurage region
Native speakers >25,000 (Ethnologue)[1]  (date missing)
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Writing system none
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mvz

Mesqan (also Masqan, Meskan) is an Afro-Asiatic Ethiopian Semitic language spoken in the West Gurage region of Ethiopia.



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