Masmaje (also known as Masmadje, Mesmedje) is an
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 central
Chad
Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North Africa, North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to Chad–Libya border, the north, Sudan to Chad–Sudan border, the east, the Central Afric ...
.
[ There are speakers in Moubi Hadaba Canton, Bitchotchi Sub-prefecture.][ Oxfam and Office National de Développement Rural (ONDR). 2016. ]
Atlas de la vulnérabilité dans le Guera. Première partie: synthèse regional
'. 2nd edition (updated from 2013 edition). PASISAT (Projet d’Appui à l’Amélioration du Système d’Information sur la Sécurité Alimentaire au Tchad).
Notes
References
* Alio, Khalil. 2004. Préliminaires à une étude de la langue kajakse d'Am-Dam, de toram du Salamat, d'ubi du Guéra et de masmaje du Batha-Est (Tchad). In: Gábor Takács (ed.), ''Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) studies: in memoriam W. Vycichl'',. 229–285. Leiden: Brill.
* Marti, Marianne, Calvain Mbernodji, and Katharina Wolf. 2007. L'enquete sociolinguistique des langues Birguit - Kadjakse - Masmedje du Tchad. ''SIL Electronic Survey Reports'' 2007-018. Dallas: SIL International. Online: https://sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2007-018.
East Chadic languages
Languages of Chad
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