Miltu (also known as Miltou or Gàlì) is an endangered

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 southwestern

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, in villages along the

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in the area of

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. A 1993 census reported 270 speakers. Speakers are shifting to Bagirmi.

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East Chadic languages Languages of Chad Endangered Afroasiatic languages {{Chad-stub