Mazagway (Musgoy; also known as Mazagway-Hidi) is a

Chadic language The Chadic languages form a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken in parts of the Sahel. They include 196 languages spoken across northern Nigeria, southern Niger, southern Chad, and northern Cameroon. By far the most widely ...

spoken in

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, in North Province and

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. Blench (2006) classifies it as a dialect of Daba.Blench, 2006
The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List
(ms) Mazagway or Mazagway Hidi is spoken in the Mousgoy region in the northern part of

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commune (

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department, North Region) and in the south of the commune of

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(

Mayo-Tsanaga Mayo-Tsanaga is a department of Extreme-Nord Province in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 4,393 km and at the 2005 Census had a total population of 699,971. The capital of the department is at Mokolo. It is located within the Man ...

, Far North Region). It is closely related to Daba, which was formerly considered to be a dialect of Mazagway.

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