Mesqan (also Mäsqan or Meskan) is an
Afro-Asiatic
The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic, and sometimes also as Afrasian, Erythraean or Lisramic, are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in the geographic su ...
language spoken by the
Gurage people in the
Gurage Zone of
Ethiopia. It belongs to the family's
Ethiopian Semitic
Ethiopian Semitic (also Ethio-Semitic, Ethiosemitic, Ethiopic or Abyssinian) is a family of languages spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan. They form the western branch of the South Semitic languages, itself a sub-branch of Semitic, part of t ...
branch.
References
Languages of Ethiopia
Outer Ethiopian Semitic languages
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