Mser (Msər), or Kousseri (Kuseri), is a moribund

Afro-Asiatic The Afroasiatic languages (also known as Afro-Asiatic, Afrasian, Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic) are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of th ...

language spoken in northern

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and southwestern

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. Dialects are Gawi, Houlouf, Kabe, Kalo, Mser (Kuseri). In Cameroon, Mser is spoken in Kousseri (

Kousséri Kousséri (from ''quṣūr'' meaning "palaces"), founded and known as Mser in the indigenous Mser language, is a city in Far North Province, Cameroon. It is the capital of the Logone-et-Chari department. It is a market town, and its populatio ...

and Logone-Birni communes, Chari Department, Far North Region). It is also spoken in Chad. There is a total of 2,100 speakers (in both Cameroon and Chad).

References

Biu-Mandara languages Endangered Afroasiatic languages Languages of Chad Languages of Cameroon {{Chad-stub